Ashkelon

In fact, as one article I read the other day said, the fact that Ashkelon is being targeted by Hamas rockets is ironic – because Ashkelon was in fact settled by Palestinians until they were driven out by the 1948 Israeli terror attacks against Palestinians.

Matthew Yglesias » Why They Fight 2009

That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza.

Matthew Yglesias » Why They Fight 2009

I met Koubi at his home on the beach in Ashkelon, just a short drive north of the border with the Gaza Strip, in whose prisons he worked for much of his career.

The Dark Art of Interrogation 2003

I met Koubi at his home on the beach in Ashkelon, just a short drive north of the border with the Gaza Strip, in whose prisons he worked for much of his career.

The Dark Art of Interrogation 2003

Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Consider what is now called Ashkelon, which is an Israeli town built on the ruins of Al-Jura.

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

I was also in a town called Ashkelon which is just on the other side, about 10 miles away from that northern Gaza border and I was at a high school today where one of those rocks had landed.

CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2006 2006

A woman and her young daughter were seriously wounded, along with another child, said Leah Malul of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.

Some news the BBC seem reluctant to cover Not a sheep 2008

A woman and her young daughter were seriously wounded, along with another child, said Leah Malul of Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.

Archive 2008-05-01 Not a sheep 2008

We're zooming in on Gaza, and then I'm going to show Ashkelon, which is one of the Israeli cities that has been hit repeatedly by rockets from Hamas.

CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2009 2009