Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel s diplomatic reporter
Dr. Jonathan Rieck, director of the Emergency Medicine Department speaks at the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon on May 12, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
It was a scene Ashkelon has been through too many times to count. And no one is counting, since everyone knows this isn’t the last time Hamas will fire rockets at its residents.
But it doesn’t make the situation any less surreal.
Residents of this coastal city, barely 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Gaza Strip, went about their business on Wednesday, eating, shopping and visiting the beach in the hot Mediterranean spring sun. The blue expanse of the sea stretched out to the horizon, a view its Egyptian, Canaanite, Philistine, Greek, Roman, Arab and Crusader rulers enjoyed over the millennia.
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Women react at the scene where an apartment building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on May 11, 2021. (Edi Israel/Flash90)
The scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on May 11, 2021. (Flash90)
Israeli security forces at the scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on May 11, 2021. (Flash90)
An apartment building hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on May 11, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
Ashkelon mayor orders opening city s bomb shelters
Matan Tzuri |
Published: 05.10.21 , 17:39
Ashkelon Mayor Tomer Glam instructed to open the bomb shelters in the southern city on Monday amid fears of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
City hall said that although we did not receive any official instruction to do so, we decided to act as a precautionary measure.
Rocket sirens blared in Ashkelon Sunday night as two projectiles were fired at the southern city from the Gaza Strip. The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted one of the rockets and the second one fell in an open field.
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