On the day of Hamas' surprise attack, Lt. Col. Habaka rushed from his home in Yanuh-Jat in northern Israel to join the fighting. "I drove from the Galilee to a base near Tze’elim in order to get the tank and reach the community as quickly as possible to save every soul I could," he recounted. He arrived in Kibbutz Be’eri with two tanks and joined the soldiers fighting there.

"I arrived in Be’eri, saw Col. Barak Hiram, and the first thing he ordered me to do was to fire a tank round into the house," he recounted. "The first question you ask yourself is whether there are civilian hostages in the house. We conducted all the preliminary actions before deciding to fire into the house, but as soon as we fired into the house, we were able to move from house to house and the hostages. The fighting continued until evening, within the kibbutz’s streets."

So he killed Jewish hostages by destroying the kibbutz, and now Hamas has avenged their

deaths by killing him.

Israel has a Hannibal Doctrine which is to kill Jewish hostages so the Palestinians have no leverage.

IDF Battalion Commander Killed As Hamas Steps Up Ambush Actions In Gaza

They know the risks of being in harm's way. ;)