07/02/2026
Israeli Radio 🇮🇱: The head of Israeli officer Ashkolev Bambaz, nicknamed the "Devil of Death," was found after he was ambushed by a mine that tore him to pieces in Rafah. His remains were sent to Ethiopia for burial three months ago. Today, his skull was found, and Bambaz left with the last of his remains in Rafah, a place that had become a nightmare, ending his life with the same fate as his father. His father had come to Israel to fight against Egypt in 1973 on the Sinai Peninsula, where he was buried. Bambaz lived an orphaned childhood in Tel Aviv shelters after his mother left him for Ethiopia when her stepfather refused to adopt him.
Ashkulev Bambaz decided to avenge his father by joining the Israeli army years later, eventually becoming the commander of Rafah operations. He wrote his will early, after October 7th, as if he knew the end was near.
“If I die, bury me in Addis Ababa… next to my mother’s grave.”
He thought that death would finally bring him back to some embrace, to a place that would acknowledge him. But Rafah had other plans.
There, Ashkulev Bambaz ended as he began: a torn body, his identity hanging in limbo. The head alone lagged behind, lost in the sand, as if refusing to follow a body that never knew where it belonged.
And in the end, Bambaz left Rafah with the last vestiges of himself, neither victorious nor vanquished, but as a son who unknowingly repeated his father's fate.
A father buried in Sinai, a son shattered in Rafah,
both believing that war would give them meaning, only to be given a grave.
The true tragedy wasn't his death,
but that he spent his entire life trying to avenge a father he never knew,
and to reach a mother who had already passed away.
Death humiliated him in a land he was forcefully trying to destroy the people that the land belongs to
