Tag: Ashkelon
IAF strikes Gaza launch pads after rockets fired at Israel on Passover
Israeli Air Force fighter jets destroyed two Hamas rocket launchers embedded in a humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the army said Wednesday, as the war started by the terrorist group entered its 200th day.
The...
Netanyahu: Israel has changed the deterrence equation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the southern city of Ashkelon on Monday, where he praised last week’s “Operation Shield and Arrow” against Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.
“I have come to Ashkelon...
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews rushes bomb shelters to Ashkelon
On Wednesday, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews placed five bomb shelters in areas of Ashkelon identified by local authorities as lacking ample protection.
The locations included residential neighborhoods where homes had no shelters...
Israel headed for severe garbage-disposal crisis, warns Environment Ministry
Israel is likely to run out of landfill space for the disposal of waste by next year, the Environmental Protection Ministry warned mayors and local council heads this week.
The Efaa, Ganey Hadas and Tarbin...
Israeli soldier lightly injured in anti-tank missile attack
An Israel Defense Forces soldier was lightly injured by shrapnel after a Gazan terror faction fired an anti-tank missile at an open touring bus in southern Israel. The military said the soldier was standing...
Rocket sirens sound in Beersheva, Ashkelon; IDF strikes major Hamas targets
Heavy rocket fire from the Gaza Strip triggered sirens in Beersheva, Ashkelon and Western Negev communities on Thursday, day 11 of the current round of fighting between Israel and terrorist groups in the Gaza...
Fellowship adds new mobile bomb shelters in bombarded Ashkelon, Israel
In response to the barrage of nearly 2,000 rockets being launched by Hamas in the Gaza Strip into Israel, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has placed 13 mobile bomb shelters this week...
Gaza terrorists launch rocket at Israel’s south; IDF hits Hamas targets
The Israeli military struck two Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Sunday morning in response to a rocket fired on Saturday from the coastal enclave into Israel, the IDF...