On October 7, a Hamas fighter was caught on video swigging a soda bottle in front of two young boys, whose father was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza last weekend.
That thug, Ahmed Fauzi Wadia, was one of the nasty paragliders who violated Israel's border from the air that day.
The Israeli army said on Tuesday that a Hamas battalion commander who “raided” and “led a massacre” in the Israeli settlement of Netiv Ha'Asala 11 months ago was killed along with seven other Hamas terrorists in an IDF airstrike on Saturday.
Wadia's horrific attack on the family in the settlement on October 7 was one of the most sickening and memorable moments of a day recorded by the Israeli embassy and privately shown to journalists several months before the war began. The atrocity was captured on the security video system in the family's home.
The footage shows father Gir Tarsa, 46, taking his two young sons for cover in a bomb shelter as terrorists stormed their house, before Wadia hurled a grenade into the shelter's hut, but Tarsa jumped on top of it to protect his children, ages eight and 12.
The boys were then shown covered in blood and comforting each other inside the house, with Wadia standing nearby drinking Coke.
“[Saturday’s] “The facility from which the terrorists were operating was located on the grounds of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, but no precise attack was carried out,” the Israeli army said in a statement. “No attack was carried out on the grounds of Al-Ahli Hospital.”
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Amid growing criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and calls for a hostage deal from the left, the military said “a number of measures were taken before the attack to reduce the risk of harm to civilians, including the use of precision weapons, aerial surveillance and the gathering of additional intelligence.”
One of the other terrorists killed in the IDF attack “served in the Daraj Tufa Battalion and was responsible for several combat specialties, including engineering, sniping and anti-tank operations,” the IDF added.
The fighter, whose name was not revealed in the statement, was “responsible for supplying the explosives used to blow up the security fence in the area controlled by the Daraj Tufa Battalion during the October 7 massacre.”
The airstrike came two days after Israeli forces found six hostages, including an Israeli-American, shot dead in an underground Hamas tunnel in the Gaza Strip.
The discovery sparked an outcry from some on the left who are infuriated that Netanyahu is continuing the war with Hamas almost a year after the group took more than 200 Israelis hostage.
President Biden himself has criticized the Israeli leader, telling reporters on Monday that Netanyahu has not tried hard enough to reach a hostage agreement.
In November, Israel and Hamas carried out a prisoner exchange in which Israel returned 105 hostages. An estimated 101 hostages remain being held in the Gaza Strip after six were found dead over the weekend, including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg Pollin.
