Hospital staff and patients work in a ward that has been relocated to the parking lot at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital for safety after sirens sounded the day after Israel and the US targeted the Iranian capital, assassinating the supreme leader, in Jerusalem on March 1, 2026. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader since 1989 and sworn enemy of the West, was killed in the opening salvo of a massive US and Israeli attack, sparking a new wave of retaliatory missile strikes from Tehran on March 1. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)