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Air raid sirens sound across southern Israel in most extensive Gaza rocket attack in months

Alerts issues for Ashkelon, Ashdod, Yavne and other towns in Lachish region; Hamas claims responsibility for rocket attack targeting Ashdod; IDF says around 10 rockets fired toward Israel, most intercepted; 3 lightly wounded in rocket impact in Ashkelon

Ynet correspondents | 04.06.25

IDF intercepts Gaza rockets over Ashkelon amid renewed fire

Military counters at least two projectiles with no casualties amid renewed fighting in Gaza; Katz directs territorial expansions to pressure hostage releases and strengthen buffer zones

Yoav Zitun, Roni Green Shaulov, Or Hadar | 03.21.25

Watch Houthi drone explode over Ashkelon, drone detonates over Nahariya

IDF says its aerial defenses intercepted a drone targeting the Upper Galilee region; Shrapnel from a drone that exploded in Nahariya causes damage to a pedestrian bridge leading to the city's train station

Yoav Zitun, Yair Kraus, Matan Tzuri | 10.29.24

The boys held a knife to his throat: Watch robbery attempt on Ashkelon taxi driver

Two 16-year-old boys arrested for attempting to rob a taxi driver in Ashkelon after they were seen in footage pulling out a knife and holding it to his neck; They were caught last week at the end of a police manhunt following the failed robbery

Matan Tzuri | 09.30.24

Ashkelon company to supply tank and APC components to IDF in $23 million order

Defense Ministry signs acquisition deal with Ashot Ashkelon to supply the IDF with tank and APC components for NIS 86 million; Amid the Gaza war, the company has pending orders amounting to $429.4 million

Navit Zomer | 08.22.24

Heroic Sderot mother shields children with her body as rocket sirens wail

Afternoon alarm in southern city caught Gilat Cohen and her 3 children returning from kindergarten; she stopped the car; her kids, knowing the drill, lay down, and she covered them for protection and recited a verse from Isaiah to stay calm

ynet correspondents | 05.13.24

Gaza rocket devastates Ashkelon home in direct strike

Sirens sound in southern city shortly after 1 a.m.; no casualties reported as apartment stood empty; Israeli jets said to launch airstrikes in Rafah amid artillery fire targeting city's center and east

Matan Tzuri | 05.12.24

7 rocket attacks from Gaza on southern Israel in just over 24 hours

It is the first time incoming rocket warning sirens have been activated in Ashkelon since February 27; Rocket falls on street in Sderot; Security Cabinet approves more humanitarian aid to Gaza through Ashdod port and the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings

Matan Tzuri | 04.05.24

IDF: 40 southern communities will be allowed home in coming days

Some 45 days since the start of the conflict, residents from 40 communities in the Western Negev soon will be allowed to return home; In communities next to the border fence, only essential agricultural workers will be permitted

Matan Tzuri, Yoav Zitun | 11.21.23

I went to Sderot to help evacuate residents under fire, then I needed a beer

The entire home front has become a network of WhatsApp groups buzzing non-stop. Everyone is helping everyone all the time.

Yoav Friedman | 10.20.23

The team at Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital, 1st to take in wounded from Hamas attack

'you take a moment to cry but then get back to work,' an ER nurse says of the shock and horror over the injuries sustained in the Hamas attack

Yuval Haninovitch | 10.16.23

Number of victims feared over 1,000; Netanyahu: 'Hamas is the same as Islamic State'

Jerusalem area, including Bethlehem, takes direct rocket hits; Northern residents told to shelter in place after border infiltrations, rocket attack; Islamic Jihad claims responsibility

ynet correspondents, news agencies | 10.09.23

Rocket fire resumes after overnight lull as fighting in Gaza enters 5th day

While IDF continues to pound PIJ assets in Gaza, rocket fire targets southern city of Ashkelon and border area communities in the early morning hours

ynet correspondents | 05.13.23

Miriam Karen gestures towards her damaged house which was hit by a rocket from Gaza for the second time in five years, in Ashkelon

Ashkelon woman's home takes direct hit, again

After Miriam Karen's home sustains direct hit five years ago, she constructs a shelter that may have saved her life during this round of rocket fire from the Gaza

Reuters | 05.11.23

Watching over the home front armed with Iron Dome

Staff Sergeant S. grew up in Ashkelon running to shelters amid sirens warning of rockets, now she shoots them out of the sky

Korin Elbaz Alush | 05.11.23

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