‘Hero’ Hamas terrorist killed in Deir al-Balah airstrike

He won’t be bragging anymore.

Mahmoud Afana — a “hero” Hamas terrorist who called home two weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre to brag about murdering 10 Jews — was killed in an Israeli airstrike Thursday in the Gazan city of Deir al-Balah.

Afana’s death was announced by Palestinian media on Saturday, reports the Times of Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces have yet to confirm the attack or his death, but the Israeli Foreign Ministry did Saturday evening.

“On October 7, Mahmoud Afana called his parents to boast that he had murdered ten Jews,” reads an X post from the IFM. “With his own hands. Today, he was eliminated by the IDF.”

Afana’s boastful phone conversation with his mother and father was recorded, and later shared online by then-Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen.

In the recording, the Hamas fighter — a member of the terrorist organization’s Nukhba forces — tells his mother, “I’m talking to you from a Jewish woman’s phone.”

“I wish I were with you,” the mother replied.

His father could be heard in the audio crying tears of joy.

The terrorist further delights in replaying how he killed the Jewish woman “and her husband” during the Oct. 7 terror attacks on Kibbutz Mefalsim.

He then told his father how he murdered 10 Israelis “with my own hands,” and offers to show him the carnage over a video call.

“Oh my son, may God protect you,” his mother declared. “May God bring you back safely.”

Afana also told his brother the blood of 10 Jews “is on my hands,” and when asked to clarify, said, “Yes, I killed 10, I swear.”

He also bragged about being the first Hamas fighter to enter Kibbutz Mefalsim that day.

Afana even declares himself “a hero” for the heinoius killings he committed.