Airstrike kills Hamas terrorist who led massacre at Netiv HaAsara
Ahmed Wadiyya, who commanded a Hamas unit responsible for the October 7 massacre at Moshav Netiv HaAsara, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza City overnight, the Israel Defence Forces said on Tuesday.
Ahmed Wadiyya, who commanded the Hamas terrorists responsible for massacring 20 Israelis at Moshav Netiv HaAsara on October 7, 2023. Photo courtesy IDF Spokesperson
The army said Wadiyya was the commander of the Nukhba Company in the Daraj Tuffah Battalion and a member of Hamas’ paragliding unit. He commanded the terrorists who killed 20 Israelis at the moshav that morning.
Wadiyya was identified as drinking soda inside the kitchen of Netiv HaAsara resident Gil Taasa in full view of his children after killing their father. The children survived the massacre.
The army said seven other terrorists were killed in the airstrike. One 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 on October 7.
The terrorists were inside a Gaza City compound located near the Al-Ahli Hospital. No strike was conducted on the hospital premises and the army used precise munitions and aerial surveillance to mitigate the risk of harming civilians.
At least 1,200 people were killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 97 remaining hostages, more than 30 have been declared dead. Hamas has also been holding captive two Israeli civilians since 2014 and 2015, and the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014.
Good riddance.