- Adir Tahar, an IDF soldier, was killed throughout Hamas’ October 7 assaults on Israel.
- A militant decapitated him and tried to promote his head for $10,000, his father has claimed.
- He mentioned his head was discovered by Israeli forces in an ice cream retailer’s freezer.
The head of an IDF soldier who was killed throughout Hamas’ October 7 assaults on Israel was present in an ice cream retailer’s freezer, his father mentioned in an interview on Israel’s Channel 14 information station.
Adir Tahar, 19, was killed as Hamas militants threw grenades throughout their assault on Israeli territory, The Times of Israel reported.
He was then beheaded, and his head was taken into the Gaza Strip, his father, David, advised Channel 14, per the report.
Following the information, David Tahar advised CNN he searched Telegram for indicators of his son, watching “every video” he may discover.
“I happened to find this video where I could see my son,” he mentioned. “I can clearly say that the soldier without a head that you can see in that video is my son.”
During an interrogation by Shin Bet, Israel’s home safety service, a Hamas militant additionally claimed that he had tried to promote the top for $10,000, David Tahar mentioned.
In an electronic mail to Business Insider, the IDF mentioned it had “no information that can confirm the report about the selling of the head.”
An IDF spokesperson confirmed all the particulars within the story, aside from the promoting of the top, to CNN.
Tahar mentioned he was later advised that his son’s head had been positioned in a black bag and left in an “ice cream fridge” in Palestine Square, Gaza.
Tahar’s head was discovered by elite Israeli troops supported by tanks, per The Times of Israel.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry additionally shared the story in a put up on X, previously Twitter.
“Half an hour before I buried my child, his body arrived at Mount Herzl, I opened the coffin when I was alone,” he mentioned. “He was unrecognizable. I identified him by dog tags and a DNA test and things he had in his pants.”
Tahar advised CNN that it was “vital the individuals perceive that what occurred on seventh October, it could actually’t occur once more. Not to Israel, the Israeli individuals, and to not anybody else.
Israeli officers wouldn’t verify earlier claims of beheadings
In the times following the Hamas assaults, unverified reviews emerged of different situations of beheadings carried out by the group, together with claims that the group had decapitated infants.
The IDF obtained widespread criticism, alleging it had unfold the rumor with out proof.
Responding to the backlash, a spokesperson for the power, Major Nir Dinar, mentioned the IDF wouldn’t examine its claims because it was “disrespectful for the dead” to take action.
No Israeli officers have confirmed the story.
“We cannot confirm any numbers. What happened in Kibbutz Kfar Aza is a massacre in which women, children and toddlers, and elderly were brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action,” the IDF mentioned in a press release to Sky News on the time.
President Joe Biden even talked about the alleged findings in a speech.
“I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,” Biden mentioned.
But the White House later mentioned that the president had not independently verified the claims.
Around 1,200 individuals have been killed in Israel throughout Hamas’ October 7 assaults.
Reports have since emerged of the brutal techniques utilized by the Palestinian militant group on the day, together with horrific tales of widespread sexual violence and mutilation.
Israel responded to the assaults with weeks of lethal airstrikes and a floor invasion of Gaza, resulting in the deaths of greater than 26,000 Palestinians to date.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the proposal of a Palestinian state as soon as the battle concludes, saying that “the war is continuing and it will continue until the end, until we achieve all of its goals.”