A small bit of justice came to two very evil men when they met their ends in Beirut and Tehran this week. Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr was blasted to oblivion by Israel in Beirut after Hezbollah fired an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket into the Golan Heights, killing a dozen Druze children playing soccer.
That was just one of 6,500 rockets, more than 1,000 antitank missiles and hundreds of drones that the terror group has launched from poor, abused Lebanon into Israel since their pals in Hamas began their Oct. 7 pogrom of murder and rape and kidnapping against Israel.
Hours later, at 2 a.m. in Tehran, another arch terrorist, the head of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, also expired, along with his bodyguard, when something explosive went through his living room window. The targeted attack, presumably also by Israel, found its target perfectly, as the rest of the apartment building was left touched.
These terrorist enemies of Israel were also enemies of the United States and civilized society.
Shukr had a $5 million price on his head from the U.S. State Department for playing “a central role in the Oct. 23, 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut which killed 241 U.S. military personnel and wounded 128 others.” Hezbollah and Shukr also had a simultaneous attack on a nearby French outpost in Beirut, killing 58 French paratroopers. It’s been more than 40 years since the Beirut massacre of U.S. and French peacekeepers who were there to help.
As for the now-dead Hamas leader, Haniyeh, he was on State’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. That means he was “determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism that threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States.”
The paymaster and armorer of Hezbollah and Hamas is Iran, the world’s No. 1 sponsor of terrorism. Yesterday, Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani sat before the Security Council and complained about the killings of Shukr and Haniyeh.
With a straight face he called it “a serious violation of international law” and “a serious breach of peace and security” and an “aggressive act of terrorism.” He wasn’t upset when Iran’s terror proxies rained down rockets on soccer fields or intentionally murder as many Israeli civilians as they could. But when the terror chiefs get knocked off, then it’s a problem.
But he wasn’t as absurd as Iran’s puppet Syrian representative, who told the Security Council that the kids playing soccer were killed by Israel and not an Iranian rocket fired by Hezbollah. Of course, Israel did it.
In May, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court requested arrest warrants for three top Hamas men for crimes against humanity and war crimes related to the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The three men were Ismail Haniyeh, Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar.
Haniyeh’s funeral is today in Tehran. The Israel Defense Forces may have very likely killed Deif in southern Gaza a few weeks ago. That leaves only Sinwar still hiding in the Hamas tunnels under Gaza.
It took four decades to catch up with Shukr. Hopefully, Sinwar’s days are numbered.