Uninvited ballistic missiles are unwelcome guests
They died in their own beds, The Free Press reports. Hossein Salami and Ali Shamkhani – Iran’s highest-ranking military officers and heads of its nuclear weapons program – had threatened Israel with annihilation for years. They have issued threats, staged terrorist attacks and, since 7 October, organised the encirclement of the Jewish state in a ring of fire by their terrorist proxies. And they knew – without the slightest illusion – that Israel had the ability and the determination to kill them.
This cohort saw the Israeli air force bury Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah in his bunker, hundreds of metres below the streets of Beirut. They saw Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh vaporize in a presidential guesthouse – in Tehran, no less. Yet on Thursday night they went home as usual and fell asleep – undisturbed, untroubled, unconcerned. Like insurance salesmen and bank tellers following their daily duties, it never occurred to them that they might not wake up in the morning. But it doesn’t.
Bulgarian Bella Ashkanazi, who survived World War II and emigrated with her family to Israel in the 1990s, died in her own apartment after a ballistic attack. She was one of the dead and thousands injured as a result of Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel. She died because she could not get down to the bomb shelter.
