Rockets from Gaza shatter short-lived calm
Jewish Journal
October 31, 2011
A rocket fired from Gaza landed in Ashkelon was the first since a barrage of rocket fire on southern Israel ended.
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U.S. to help Israel buy more Iron Dome systems
Jewish Journal
May 26, 2011
The United States will help Israel buy four more Iron Dome short-range anti-missile systems, a Pentagon official said.
Iron Dome intercepts first missiles from Gaza
Jewish Journal
April 7, 2011
Israel\’s Iron Dome missile defense system for the first time intercepted rockets fired from Gaza. Ashkelon\’s Iron Dome intercepted two rockets fired Thursday on the southern Israeli city. The unit had been set up three days earlier.
Task force to reassess Ashkelon ER move
Jewish Journal
March 23, 2010
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a task force to re-evaluate a Cabinet decision to relocate the planned construction of a reinforced emergency room in southern Israel.\n\nIsrael\’s Cabinet approved by one vote on Sunday a plan to relocate Barzilai Medical Center\’s planned underground secure emergency room to a site farther from the Ashkelon hospital because ancient graves were found on the site.
Eyeless in Gaza
Marty Kaplan
January 5, 2009
Where were all the people of Gaza rising up in outrage when Hamas used them as human shields?
Eight members of the Levi family adjust to rockets in Ashkelon
Dina Kraft
December 30, 2008
Another rocket warning siren wails and eight members of the Levi family, including a grandmother and a newborn, quickly cram into the small bedroom made of reinforced concrete that serves as the family\’s bomb shelter. \”Come on, come on! Get in!\” they shout. Just before the metal door thuds shut, the family dog, Pick, is whisked inside.
Ashkelon is the new front line in the war with Gaza
Dina Kraft
March 9, 2008
Practically overnight, life in this quiet coastal city has changed dramatically. Thirteen rockets landed in Ashkelon over the course of four days, and with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) having launched a ground invasion into Gaza over the weekend, shaken residents here suddenly find themselves in a war zone.
Israel weighs novel ideas to counter Hamas rockets
Leslie Susser
March 9, 2008
With Israel still facing Hamas rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip following the end of the army\’s limited ground operation there, the Israeli government is considering stronger follow-up measures.
Israel’s new reality
Shira Kaplan
March 8, 2008
The agenda linking Hassan Nasrallah, the Shiite leader of Lebanese Hezbollah; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Shiite Iranian president; and Ismail Heniyeh, the Sunni leader of Hamas and the de facto prime minister of the Gaza Strip is simple: remove the \”cancerous cell\” called the State of Israel from the Middle East. Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah have reiterated this message out loud; Heniyeh\’s Hamas Constitution explicitly calls for this objective. The goal is self-evident. As for the means, anything is legitimate.
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