IDF said to kill Hamas commander who led moshav invasion on Oct. 7, drank Coke from victim’s fridge

The IDF has reportedly killed an elite Hamas commander who led the invasion of Moshav Netiv Ha’asara on October 7, and who was filmed drinking Coca-Cola from the fridge of a home there moments after murdering a man in front of his young children inside the same home.

Israeli outlets report, without citing sources, that the Israeli victim’s family was told yesterday that the IDF and the Shin Bet have now taken out Ahmed Wadiyya in an airstrike that killed eight Hamas members near Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital.

Wadiyya, said to be a company commander in Hamas’s elite Nukhba forces, raided the Israeli community on the morning of October 7 using a paraglider, and oversaw the massacre of 21 residents and the kidnapping to Gaza of one.

One of the victims was Gil Taasa, 46, who had been in his home with his two youngest sons, Koren, 12 and Shay, 8.

Gil, a senior firefighter in the Ashkelon fire station, grabbed his gun and shot at the terrorists until he ran out of bullets, his son Koren later recounted in an interview with the Kan public broadcaster.

Then, the terrorists threw a grenade into the shelter they were hiding in: “There’s no way he wasn’t afraid but he decided to save us and he jumped on the grenade… there was an explosion, I saw smoke, suddenly we were covered in blood.”

Koren said the terrorists came to check that Gil was actually dead, then drank the cola that was in the fridge and left the house. The two wounded brothers ran next door to their mother, where they hid in their safe room for hours until they were evacuated.

Gil’s oldest son Or, 17, had left early that morning to go fishing with some friends on the Zikim beach, where he was murdered in the onslaught.

Source » timesofisrael.com