Terrorist Who Drank Coke After Murdering Netiv Ha’asara Resident Eliminated In Airstrike

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a combined operation of the IDF and Shin Bet, Air Force fighter jets attacked Monday night a compound used by Hamas near the Al-Ahli hospital area in Gaza City. Eight Hamas terrorists were killed in the attack, including Ahmed Fauzi Nasser Mohammed Wadia, the commander of the Nukhba unit which attacked Netiv Ha’Asara on Oct. 7th. Another terrorist, involved in engineering, sniping, and anti-tank combat , who had been responsible for supplying explosives to breach the fence during the terror attack on October 7, was also eliminated.

Wadia, who used a paraglider to enter the Moshav located just north of the Gaza strip, gained notoriety during the massacre after he was caught on surveillance camera footage drinking Coca-Cola in front of two injured and bleeding children and their dying father, who he had just murdered. The footage is considered one of the most shocking recordings from the massacre and was included in the IDF Spokesperson’s “Horror Film.”

The children, Koren and Shai Ta’asa, had been saved from injury when their father Gil Ta’asa HyD, a security officer, jumped on a grenade thrown by the terrorists towards them in a shelter in Netiv Ha’asara. Gil’s son Ohr, who went surfing at nearby Zikim beach, was also murdered in the attack, while his wife Sabine and their three other children, including Zohar who was with his mother, survived.

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Koren recounted the events of that morning during an Israel television interview, explaining that when the events began, his father took his gun but was killed when he jumped on a grenade thrown by the terrorists at the shelter. “We left the shelter and saw two terrorists standing in front of us,” he shared. “I tried to open Google Translate to tell the terrorist I wanted to go back to my mother, but instead he logged into Facebook and started recording my father. Then he slapped me on the neck, and I said ‘help, help’ in English, hoping he would leave me alone and let me go—Shai just stared at our father.”

Koren shared that eventually when they did not see the terrorists, he told his brother Shai they had to run. They ran until they reached the entrance of their mother’s house, who lives nearby. They arrived there wounded and bleeding, and Shai even lost sight in one eye.

Sabine recounted that at the time the terrorists were in the neighboring house, some of them reached the entrance of her home. The decision to open the door for Koren and Shai was made, in fact, after she had already encountered the terrorists earlier. “I heard my boys calling me from outside, and I quickly brought them inside,” she said. “They informed me that their father had been killed right in front of them.”