IDF says it killed Hamas commander who murdered man in front of his kids on Oct. 7 [View all]
The military on Tuesday confirmed reports that a Hamas Nukhba force company commander who led the invasion of Netiv Haasara on October 7 was killed in a recent airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
Ahmed Fawzi Nasser Muhammad Wadiyya was among eight Hamas terrorists killed in the strike on a compound used by the terror group near Gaza Citys al-Ahli hospital, according to a joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet.
The military said that Wadiyya was the commander of a Nukhba force company in the terror groups Daraj-Tuffah Battalion. On October 7, he entered Netiv Haasara a moshav near the Gaza border by paraglider and oversaw the massacre of 22 of the communitys 900 residents.
He was the terrorist who was filmed drinking Coca-Cola from the fridge of the Taasa family home, moments after murdering Gil Taasa, 46, in front of his two youngest sons, Koren, 12, and Shay, 8, inside the same home.
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