The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Tuesday that they had killed a Hamas terrorist who murdered an Israeli father in front of his children in one of the most notorious and brutal scenes of the October 7 terror attacks.
Terrorist Ahmed Fawzi Nazer Muhammad Wadia took part in the attack on the border town of Netib Ha'Asalah. His actions were featured in a 43-minute film depicting Hamas atrocities. Breitbart News attended its first screening in October.
Breitbart News reported:
A father and his two sons have just woken up in their underwear and are trying to run away from their home.
The father picked up one of the boys and the three ran to a shelter in the backyard.
A terrorist peers through the fence and throws a grenade into the shelter, which bounces off the back wall and explodes.
The father's body falls forward, and the boy appears, covered in his father's blood, gazing at him.
For a second you think a terrorist is going to shoot him.
Instead, the armed terrorists lured the boys into the house.
One boy sits in a chair, the other on a sofa. Both are in their underwear, and both are dripping with their own and their father's blood. They are both crying. “Daddy! Daddy!” says the boy on the sofa. “Ouch, I think they're trying to kill us.”
A terrorist wearing a Palestinian flag patch on his bulletproof vest opens the refrigerator and asks if he wants water, saying “Mime” in Hebrew. The man sitting on the sofa replies in English that he wants his mother. Not “Mime,” but “Mommy.” The man repeats, “Mommy. Mommy.”
And then the worst moment comes.
We see a boy lying on a sofa, slumped over on the carpet. “Why am I alive?” he cries.
He then looks at his brother sitting in a chair. There is a red and black space where his eyes were. He asks if his brother can see with his eyes. He says he can't. The other brother asks again. Are you kidding? He repeats that he can't see.
Somehow, the boys escape together through the back door.
The boys and their mother survived, but their father, Gil Taasa, died, according to the Times of Israel. NotesTaatha tried to defend the city.
Gil, a veteran firefighter with the Ashkelon fire station, grabbed his gun and fired at the terrorists until he ran out of bullets, his son Koren later told Kan state broadcaster in an interview.
The terrorists then threw a grenade into the shelter they were hiding in. “There's no way he wasn't scared, but he decided to save us and jumped on the grenade…There was an explosion, we saw smoke and suddenly we were covered in blood.”
Koren said the terrorists came to check if Gil was really dead, then drank a Coke from the fridge and left the house, while the two injured brothers ran to their mother next door, where they hid in a safe room for hours before being evacuated.
His brother, Oru, 17, was killed by Hamas on Zikim Beach where he had gone fishing that morning.
Breitbart News subsequently identified the exact locations of the atrocities at Netiv Ha'asalah during journalists' first visit to the site in November.
The home where a Hamas terrorist hurled a grenade at a father, killing him in front of his two sons, one of whom was left partially blind, in Netiv Ha'Asala, Israel, November 17, 2023. (Joel Pollack/Breitbart News)
The Israel Defense Forces said they killed Wadia in an airstrike on a terrorist base that had been set up (ironically, typically) near Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City.
The Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Security Agency (ISA, Shabak and Shin Bet) said in a statement:
In a joint operation between the IDF and the Israeli Army, the Israeli Air Force struck a compound in Gaza City where Hamas terrorists were operating. During the attack, eight Hamas terrorists from the Daraj Tufa Battalion were killed, including Ahmed Fawzi Nazer Muhammad Wadia, commander of Daraj Tufa Battalion's Nukba Company and a member of Hamas' paragliding unit. On October 7, Wadia used a paraglider to enter the community of Netib Ha'Asalah, where he led a massacre of civilians carried out by Hamas terrorists.
Wadia is the terrorist who drank coke inside the Tarsa family home in front of Gir Tarsa's children, who survived the massacre after terrorists killed their father on October 7.
The other terrorist eliminated in the attack was responsible for several combat specialties in the Daraj Tufa Battalion, including engineering, sniping and anti-tank operations, and was in charge of supplying the explosives used to blow up the security fence in the Daraj Tufa Battalion's area of responsibility during the October 7 massacre.
The precise location of the attack on the facility where the terrorists were operating was near the Al-Ahli Hospital facility in Gaza City. No attack took place on the grounds of Al-Ahli Hospital.
Prior to the attack, numerous measures were taken to mitigate the risk of harm to civilians, including the use of precision weapons, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence gathering.
Al-Ahli hospital was also the site of one of Hamas' most notorious false claims early in the war: that Israel had killed 500 people in an airstrike on the hospital.
In fact, the hospital's car park was hit by an errant Islamic Jihad rocket, killing up to 50 people, but the hospital building was unharmed.
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