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Aseel, Amal, Mais and Sahra were getting ready for the holiday celebrations at a local beauty salon in the West Bank town of Beit Awwa when an Iranian missile struck – with no warning sirens to alert them. Thousands came to bid them farewell
Wednesday was supposed to be another day of preparing for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which starts on Friday. In an agricultural area in the West Bank town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron, women and girls had gathered inside a trailer used as a beauty salon. Everyone was busy with final preparations for the three-day holiday, which marks the end of the fast of the month of Ramadan.
