A Hamas terrorist drank Coca-Cola from an Israeli family’s fridge on October 7 as two young brothers, Koren, 12, and Shay Taasa, 8, watched in fear.
Koren and Shay had just witnessed the terrorist kill their father, Gil. A former firefighter in the Ashkelon fire station, Gil took his sons into a shelter when he heard Hamas approach on the morning of October 7, where he tried to fend terrorists off with a gun. Hamas threw a grenade into the shelter, which Gil jumped on to save his sons. Israel showed the horrible scene at the Taasa family’s house in a 47-minute-long broadcast of Hamas’s atrocities, which the country displayed to United Nations officials and American politicians. I watched, as did Jimmy, the video of Koren’s comforting Shay after Gil has been blown up in front of them — and it is a haunting image. Jimmy wrote:
One clip, from a home security system, shows a father rushing two of his young sons — it’s early in the morning, and they’re all in their underwear — from their living room into a bomb shelter, really a concrete shed, in their backyard. The video then cuts to the backyard. A Hamas gunman, apparently off-screen, throws something into the shelter. There’s an explosion, a body slumps over into the doorway, and two terrorists appear on screen. They enter the shelter, pulling the boys out by the arm. Later, back in the house, one of the terrorists offers the boys water that he pulled from the family’s fridge. One responds: “I want my mom, mom.” A subsequent clip shows a middle-aged woman approaching the shelter with two armed Israelis wearing helmets but not IDF uniforms; upon seeing the dead father, she slumps over, apparently in despair, and they pull her away, as the Hamas attack was still occurring.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed Gil’s murderer, Ahmed Fawzi Nasser Muhammad Wadiyya, near Gaza City’s al-Ahli hospital in a recent air strike, the military said this week. Wadiyya had paraglided into Netiv Ha’asara on October 7 and was the very terrorist filmed, drinking Coca-Cola in the Taasa home after having murdered Gil in front of his children.
There were of course other gruesome scenes shown in the video that Israel aired. Israel deserves the chance to settle every score — to kill the terrorists responsible for the dead children, some with precious ringlets, whose chubby faces were bloody and hollow; to kill the terrorists who sprayed bullets at the Nova music festival, where young people died embracing each other; to kill the monsters who filmed themselves hacking mercilessly at an IDF soldier’s head with a blunt knife.