Terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at Ashkelon on Sunday night, marking the first such attack on southern Israel since Aug. 29 and the first time sirens had sounded in the city of 150,000 in nearly a month.
One of the rockets was intercepted, the other fell in the sea off the city’s coast, according to the Israel Defense Forces. No casualties were reported.
On Aug. 29, two rockets were fired from Gaza at the border community of Kibbutz Kissufim; both came down in open areas. Air-raid sirens were last activated in the Ashkelon area on Aug. 9, per IDF data.
On May 12, three people were lightly wounded in Ashkelon when a rocket scored a direct hit on an apartment in the city’s south.
Israeli ground forces entered the Gaza Strip on Oct. 27 following weeks of airstrikes in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion, in which terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, wounded thousands more, and abducted 251 men, women and children.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defined Israel’s war goals as returning the hostages, eliminating Hamas’s military and governing capabilities and ensuring that Gaza will never again constitute a threat.
