Posted on 08/31/2025 1:32:52 AM PDT by lowbridge
The video had not been released publicly until widow Sabine Taasa, who also lost her oldest son to the terrorists, became determined “to show all the world the truth that October 7 happened in Israel.”
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Shot on home security footage, the terrifying encounter showed Sabine’s 46-year-old husband Gil desperately rushing his sons, Koren, 12, and Shay, 8, out of their home in Netiv HaAsara, a community just north of Gaza, as Hamas soldiers stormed the building around 6:30 a.m.
The trio, in just underwear, attempted to flee to the home’s bomb shelter in the backyard — but were immediately met by the terror group.
One soldier tossed a grenade at the family.
Gil Taasa, employed as a senior firefighter, instinctively threw himself on top of the munition to shield his children.
He was immediately killed in the blast.
Hamas ushered Koren and Shay — who were left covered in shrapnel and their dad’s blood — back inside their home.
Inside, the pair of brothers inspected one another’s wounds.
Koren revealed he cannot hear out of his left ear, while Shay said he can’t see out of his eye — with Sabine later describing that her little one’s eye is “hanging half out of its socket.”
“Please, please, please. Let me go home!” Koren pleaded with one of the armed militants before crying: “My dad! My dad!”
That’s when the elder brother told Shay, “Dad’s dead, Shay. I’m not joking. It’s really not a prank.”
The younger boy tragically replied: “I know. I saw.”
The boys both suffered a series of emotions, with both wailing that they didn’t want to die like their father had and questioning why Hamas had left them alive.
A trail of bloody footprints littered the home where the brothers paced around frantically.
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Heartbreaking.
Their dad is a true father and an absolute hero.
What a courageous father. How tragic that his children will have to grow up without him, thanks to Hamas.
If the Israelis and our own State Department released all the videos on that day there would not be so many protests all over the US. We are so stupid.
our “brave hero journalists” don’t care about what happened, they only care about their paycheck from their anti Israeli, anti American, anti western civilization, medieval globalist employers.
Amen. If there had been a rifle in that home, that man might well still be alive with his family.
Never be disarmed. Never.
If Israel released the horrendous videos the world would still claim it was fake or AI or our clandestine program to rule the world. That is number 1.
Number 2 the fact that Jews were raped, murdered, mutilated, burned alive and tortured still means less than the sprained ankle of a PLO-HAMAS-Terrorist “journalist”.
The Arab-Muslims know how to lie and lie very well, after all, they have been doing it since the 7th Century.
The world will pay a very nasty price for not supporting Israel and the Jews’ fight against Islamicists.
Yes.
Then the bastard calmly offered the boys juice while he helped himself. I hope he is still alive so he can face trial for this atrocity.
It’s important to keep in mind that it was not just “Hamas fighters” who committed mass atrocities in Israel that day, but also Palestinian so-called “civilians” who came in by the hundreds and participated alongside them. There is no difference. Hamas = Arab Civilians.
No greater love......
“Never be disarmed. Never.”
That goes even more so for neighborhoods near Palis.
America is the only country where you have the right to bear arms.
Everywhere else, it is the responsibility of the state to protect you.
America is the only country that doesn't abridge that God-given right, but some are still working at it.
Has anyone addressed these issues, remedied them, answered for their failures? I lived in Israel for a year, several years ago and things were slipshod even back then. Hamas saw the weaknesses and their murderers saw their opening.
Curious. Would a Muslim father throw himself on a grenade to save a son, daughter, or wife? Let’s say that he does not think this qualifies him for sex with 76 virgins.
I hope all those people who say it didn’t happen, watch this video. I just pray that Bibi doesn’t stop until every Hama$$
terrorist is dead.
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