THE FIGHTING IN GAZA CONTINUES

IDF eliminates Nukhba terrorist who oversaw Netiv Ha’asara massacre

Ahmed Wadia was killed in an airstrike on a Hamas compound in Gaza City, according to the military. 

 

JNS

Sep 3, 2024 

 

 

Ahmed Fozi Nazer Muhammad Wadia

 

Israeli forces in Gaza have killed the Hamas terrorist who led the Oct. 7 assault on the northwest Negev moshav of Netiv Ha’asara, the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency said on Tuesday.

Israeli fighter jets struck a Hamas compound near the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing eight terrorists from Hamas’s Daraj Tuffah Battalion, according to the joint statement. Among those killed was Ahmed Fozi Nazer Muhammad Wadia, a member of the terror group’s Nukhba force who led the invasion of Netiv Ha’asara, located directly adjacent to the Gaza fence.

Another terrorist killed in the strike was “responsible for several combat specialties in the Daraj Tuffah Battalion, including engineering, sniping and anti-tank operations, and was responsible for supplying the explosives used to blow up the security fence in the Daraj Tuffah Battalion’s area during the Oct. 7 massacre,” according to the IDF.

On Oct. 7, Wadia, who was active in Hamas’ parachute array, infiltrated the moshav using a paraglider and oversaw the massacre of 21 residents and the kidnapping of one to Gaza.

One of those murdered in the moshav that day was Gil Taasa, 46, a senior firefighter in the Ashkelon fire station. On the morning of Oct. 7, Taasa was at home with his two youngest sons, Koren, 12 and Shay, 8. After he ran out of ammunition, the terrorists threw a grenade into the shelter where they were hiding. Taasa leapt on the grenade to save his sons, who were wounded but survived.

Wadia was captured on video opening the door of the family’s refrigerator and sipping a Coke in front of the bleeding children before leaving the home. Koren and Shay then ran next door to their mother’s home and hid in the safe room for hours before being evacuated.

Taasa’s oldest son, Or, 17, was murdered by Hamas terrorists at Zikim Beach, where he had gone early in the morning to surf with friends.

“My sons are happy and that’s the most important thing,” said Gil’s widow, Sabin Tassa, after receiving the news of Wadia’s death, according to Channel 12. “My son Koren told me he wanted to see a picture of [Wadia] dead. I personally will close the circle only after I know that all Hamas members and [Hamas leader in Gaza Yayha] Sinwar have been eliminated,” she added.

Terror tunnel with freight rail line destroyed

Israeli forces in recent weeks destroyed a massive terror tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip that was used to transport freight via rail, the IDF revealed on Tuesday.

Based on intelligences, forces from the Engineering Unit of the Gaza Division and the Northern Brigade, in cooperation with the Yahalom Unit, located the over 1-kilometer (0.6-mile) Hamas tunnel in the Beit Lahia area.

Soldiers located weapons, electrical infrastructure, and a transport rail along the route.

“The engineering forces of the Northern Brigade in the Gaza Division destroyed an offensive terrorist tunnel in the north of the Gaza Strip,” said Major S., the engineering officer of the Northern Brigade, “inside the tunnel we found infrastructure proving that the route was used by Hamas significantly for terrorist operations against our forces.”