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| Code Red in Ashkelon |
I just got out of the secured room, after a sudden CODE RED alarm was heard in Ashkelon. I was actually just entering the shower before I leave back to the center, when the siren started. I went downstairs, opened the front door, called Leonardo (which came running) and we all went into the secured […]
| A rocket almost hit my mother’s office |
My mother is currently in a Taxi going to her workplace - one of the community centers in Ashkelon. A Grad missile hit next to it so even though she has a day off she went there to calm the workers (she’s the manager of the center) and see what’s going on.
My father refuses to […]
| The battle in Gaza |
Update 6:43: 2 Soldiers were killed in the operation in Gaza. 6 others were wounded. Picture by Hetzel Yosef of Ynet.
17:10: Just came back from watching the special news broadcast on Israel Channel 2 (The site has video broadcasts in Hebrew but doesn’t like Firefox very much). According to what the experts said on the […]
| Another COLOR RED |
This time the alarm was closer. It took the kids about 2 seconds to disappear from the street. My parents, Leonardo (our dog) and I went all to the shielded room and waited until we heard the fall (which was in a close neighborhood).
There are sirens now, police and ambulances driving around. The kids are […]
| Serious fighting in Gaza |
According to this news report, there fighting goes on intensely in Gaza today:
According to reports, 32 Palestinians were killed in heavy exchanges of fire which erupted in the area. Palestinians reported that 12 of the casualties were civilians, including seven children, three women and two unarmed men. More than 60 Palestinians were injured.
Most of […]
| 3 people, 2 of them kids, lightly wounded in Ashkelon |
Apparently, the COLOR RED I’ve experienced about half an hour ago was the second one in Ashkelon. Around 5am there was a COLOR RED alarm in a more distant part of the city (obviously I’m not going to give exact location…) and 3 rockets hit the city.
One of the rockets fell in an empty field, […]
| New reality for the people of Ashkelon |
I went to get the car from the garage this morning, and then went to do the regular shopping for my parents. In the supermarket I was approached by a young female soldier which handed me a paper with instructions on how to behave in a rockets attack. Only after she gave me the paper […]
| A serious operation in Gaza? |
Damn, just came to my parent’s for the weekend and in order to put the car in the garage, wasn’t planning to go back into warblogging…
Anyway, the Israeli news sites report there was a big explosion in Gaza. The Air Force been hitting missiles-launching teams around the clock since the morning. Apperantly, every time IDF […]
| Bloody hell |
Ok, we just had a missile hit about 5 minutes from my parent’s house here.
I went out to get the dog inside the house. My father watches TV and didn’t even hear the fall. There is no “Red Color” alarm installed in Ashkelon so there isn’t even a warning before the missiles hit.
| Missiles on my city |
Hmm… Been quite a while since I wrote, specially on the ’situation’.
I’ve arrived to Ashkelon today after a few meetings in Tel Aviv. I came here to my parents and also to put the car in the garage for a waaaay overdue periodical treatment.
About 5 minutes after I arrived to my parents house I […]