The late Col. Asaf Hammi served as the commander of the southern brigade of the Gaza Division. On 7.10 he fell in the battles. His body was kidnapped to Gaza along with the bodies of Sergeant Tomer Yaakov Achims, Hammi's contact, and Sergeant Kiril Brodsky, a soldier in his PAK. Hammi, 41, a resident of Kiryat Ono, left behind a wife and three children. Before serving as commander of the southern brigade, he also served as commander of the Negev brigade and before that also as commander of the training base of the commando brigade and commander of the Saber battalion of the Givati brigade. On December 2, 2023, 57 days after Black Sabbath, the IDF allowed it to be published that it had fallen.