Ashqelon

This is just after a rocket attack, a deadly rocket attack from one of these militant groups that hit Ashqelon, which is a town about ten miles north of Gaza.

CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2008 2008

The Palestinian terrorist organizations, led by Hamas, again fired dozens of rockets and mortar shells at western Negev population centers, including the town of Sderot and city of Ashqelon.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

This is what I was just talking to you about, Ashqelon.

CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2009 2009

Jerry Lampen/Reuters An Israeli man took cover next to a car as a siren sounded warning of incoming rockets in the southern town of Ashqelon Tuesday.

Fighting Reaches Downtown Gaza City 2009

Let's go to the second video now, because I want you to see one Israeli city from Gaza, you can see Ashqelon there.

CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2009 2009

And some others that we are going to show you now are farther away than Ashqelon.

CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2009 2009

Israelis showed me thickly walled rooms that act as bomb shelters and explained air raid siren systems in Sderot and Ashqelon.

Salena Tramel: Congress, Accountability, and the Goldstone Report 2009

I'm going to take you north of Gaza City, to this place called Ashqelon.

CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2009 2009

Israelis showed me thickly walled rooms that act as bomb shelters and explained air raid siren systems in Sderot and Ashqelon.

Salena Tramel: Congress, Accountability, and the Goldstone Report 2009

As we get in, we're going to see that Ashqelon is only seven miles north of Gaza, one of many cities that have been hit by rocket attacks and Israel says hundreds of thousands are in harm's way on side of Gaza.

CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2009 2009