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On Tuesday night in Ashkelon a Kassam rocket fell in Hof Ashkelon. No one was injured, thank goodness. Nevertheless, who wants to hear that sound and have to be thankful that it didn't fall on their house. It must be a very scary sound.

Thursday, January 07, 2010



Ashkelon Under Attack Again



Thursday evening in Israel the Gazan terrorists were at it again. They fired a rocket towards Ashkelon, Portland, Oregon's sister city. It exploded in some farming fields south of the city. The community was warned by a warning siren that went off. I wonder what had been planted there; onions? potatoes?



Earlier they had fired an anti-tank missile at an IDF force near the security barrier. IDF returned fire,… Continue

Honest Reporting pointed out today that some 12,000 rockets and mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip since 2001 into Southern Israel, hitting mostly Sderot and sometimes Ashkelon. That's eight years of shelling that Israelis endured.

That's an average of 1,500 rockets falling in each year, or 125 each month for eight years. That's an average of 4 bombings each day for eight years! I would be out of my mind! Yet the citizens of Ashkelon and Sderot are trying their utmost to continue on… Continue

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Update: Portland-Ashkelon Sister City Ass. from Tamar



Subject: Ashkelon under fire. Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:08:01 +0000 from Tamar Boussi in Israel



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Ashkelon under fireBy Marty Davis January 07, 2009



As the sirens go off and we wait in our shelter to hear the boom of the missiles, we wonder when this will end. For the past eight years there has been constant bombardment of Sderot and the surrounding settlements. This is… Continue