Posts Tagged: Ashkelon
US-Built Gaza Pier Dismantled by Waves After Distributing No Aid to Civilians
A US-led initiative to erect a temporary pier to transport humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip has been a disaster thus far. Rough seas caused four...
Palestinian Rocket Fire Draws Israeli Air Strikes in Gaza
Palestinian militants fired a rocket toward a city in southern Israel on Saturday, drawing Israeli air strikes, the Israeli military said, after months of relative...
Living Under Fire in Israel, When the Rocket Shelter Becomes Your Home
Standing over his baby's cot in the whitewashed glare of an Israeli rocket shelter, Natanel Sharvit spends his days killing time. If he risks going...
IDF: 3,700 Gaza Rockets Shot at Israel Since Start of Operation
i24 News – The Israel Defense Forces said Hamas and other terrorist groups shot some 3,700 rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel, as of...
Israel-Gaza Conflict Rages On Despite US, Regional Diplomacy
Israel pummeled Gaza with air strikes on Monday and Palestinian militants launched rockets at Israeli cities despite a flurry of US and regional diplomacy that...
Israel Kills Militant Commander after Palestinian Rocket Fire, US Calls for Peace
Israel killed a senior Palestinian militant commander in heavy air strikes on Gaza on Monday and Islamist groups renewed rocket attacks on Israeli cities despite...
Israel Launches Dozens of Strikes as Gaza Fighting Enters Second Week
Israel launched dozens of air strikes in Gaza and the Hamas militant group kept up its rocket attacks on Israeli cities in fighting that spilled...
Rocket Hits School in Israel’s South: ‘On a Normal Day 450 Students Study Here’
A yeshiva school in Israel’s southern city of Ashkelon, which is the home of 450 students, took a direct hit from the heavy barrage of...
Resident of Ashkelon Describes Seeing ‘Bloody’ Husband After House Suffered Direct Rocket Hit
Marina, a resident of Ashkelon who was wounded along with her husband and children during the massive rocket barrages that have struck the city since...
Surveillance Scheme Hunts for COVID Traces in Israel’s Sewers
Sewer surveillance in Israel's coastal city of Ashkelon has pinpointed unknown outbreaks of COVID-19 by identifying traces of the virus in the sewage system. The project, similar...
Netanyahu Says Gaza Operation Has Bolstered Israel’s Deterrence; Woman Wounded in Ashkelon Rocket Attack
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that the fighting with Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip had been successful so far and the...
Group of UN Ambassadors Visit Rocket-Battered Southern Israeli City of Ashkelon
A group of UN ambassadors toured Ashkelon on Tuesday, shortly after the southern Israeli city was a target of a two-day rocket assault by Gaza...
Factory Worker, 60-Year-Old Driver Killed in Sunday Rocket Attacks on Ashkelon, Two Others Wounded
Two Israelis were killed and two more were wounded in a wave of rocket attacks on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Sunday. The victims...
Palestinian President Abbas’s Fatah Party Mocks ‘Fearful’ Israelis Running From Hamas Rocket Attacks
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party reacted with glee to last week's massive rocket barrage on Israel's south. According to monitoring group Palestinian Media Watch, the...
