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Avi Yosef-Hay stands at the entrance to his bakery in Kiryat Shmona, on October 22, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
October 23, 2023, 10:45 pm
Resilient few who’ve stayed in Kiryat Shmona share hopes, fears in Hezbollah’s shadow
A handful of open businesses serve the 8% of northern city’s populace who remain; the rest followed government orders to evacuate due to Hezbollah rockets, fears of escalation
By Canaan Lidor
Israelis take cover inside a bomb shelter as rockets are fired toward Tel Aviv, October 16, 2023 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
October 17, 2023, 6:34 pm
Stay safe: The best places to go in the event of a rocket attack
A residential or communal saferoom is best, then a building shelter or public shelter. If those aren’t available, head for an internal stairwell or a room without external walls
By Jeremy Sharon
A plume of smoke rises from the remains of a building west of Gaza City that was targeted by the Israeli Air Force in response to a rocket attack that hit southern Israel earlier in the day on August 9, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
August 9, 2018, 6:29 pm
After Gaza rocket hits Beersheba, IDF levels an alleged Hamas HQ
As high-level security cabinet convenes to discuss violence in south, Israeli jets flatten five-story building near Gaza City the army says was used by Hamas internal security
By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon
A police officer inspects a crater caused by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip that struck an open field north of the city of Beersheba on August 9, 2018. (Israel Police)
August 9, 2018, 4:00 pm
Beersheba targeted by rocket attack for first time since 2014 war
Projectile strikes open field outside the southern city, shattering a ceasefire that lasted approximately two hours
By Judah Ari Gross
Soldiers in the IDF Home Front Command's search and rescue units carry a stretcher during a large-scale exercise in Zikim near the Gaza border on July 3, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
September 15, 2016, 8:14 pm
Hundreds would die, missiles would rain everywhere in all-out war, IDF predicts
Ahead of nation-wide exercise, Home Front Command says 230,000 rockets are aimed at Israel, though only a few would cause carnage should conflict break out
By Judah Ari Gross
An Iron Dome Missile Defense battery deployed near the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, July 21, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 30, 2015, 2:01 pm
The hills are alive with the sound of rocket fire
Sirens in the south interrupt 5,000 viewers of ‘The Sound of Music’; an Arab MK’s outburst has pundits questioning his sanity
By Marissa Newman
In this picture provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, second left, greets members of the Egyptian armed forces in Northern Sinai, Egypt, Saturday, July 4, 2015.(Egyptian Presidency /Mohammed Abdel-Muati via AP)
July 5, 2015, 2:23 am
Egypt thwarted jihadists’ bid to set up Sinai terror state — Sissi
President praises troops for ‘foiling very big plan’ following massive attack by Islamic Jihad-linked group
By AP
An Iron Dome battery intercepts an incoming rocket during the summer 2014 war (photo credit: IDF)
July 2, 2015, 4:36 pm
Iron Dome gets mysterious upgrade
Defense Ministry announces an improvement to the missile defense system, against unspecified ‘unprecedented threats’
By Mitch Ginsburg
Hamas members patrol an area 300 meters from the Israeli border with Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where a road is being paved, on June 03, 2015. AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB
June 3, 2015, 10:36 pm
Hamas: IDF tried, failed to halt paving of Gaza border road
Terror group’s news website claims Israeli forces entered southern strip in order to prevent work along fence
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 30, 2015, 11:34 pm
Liberman: Government ‘burying head in the sand’ on Gaza
As Hamas builds border road it says will help fight Israel, former FM says Netanyahu ‘insists on remaining deaf’ to terror group’s threats
By ToI Staff
The Israeli border fence with Gaza (David Buimovitch/Flash90)
May 30, 2015, 6:25 pm
Hamas paves road near Gaza border ‘to attack Zionists’
Construction on Palestinian side of fence is ongoing; Israeli officials say work does not currently pose threat
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin during a visit to the northern border on May 27, 2015. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
May 27, 2015, 8:28 pm
Rivlin open to negotiations with Hamas, urges Gaza rebuilding
President says he would talk to terror group, but not ‘if they want to negotiate my very existence’
By Adiv Sterman and Jonathan Beck
Palestinian Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, gives a speech during a rally in Gaza City, Aug. 27, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)
May 27, 2015, 6:56 pm
Hamas unfazed by Israeli warnings following rocket
Ismail Haniyeh says Gaza residents not afraid of conflict, while blast in south made a million Israelis panic
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Islamic Jihad supporters celebrate what they said was a victory over Israel, in Gaza City on August 29, 2014. (Photo credit: Emad Nassar/Flash90)
May 27, 2015, 1:57 pm
Terror in a teapot or cause for concern?
A rocket attack transports southern Israelis back to last summer’s horrors, though it was more likely the result of an internal terrorist kerfuffle than an actual escalation
By Joshua Davidovich
A Palestinian Hamas security officer stands guard in Gaza, on October 9, 2014. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
May 27, 2015, 10:49 am
Hamas seeks to restore calm in the Strip
Gaza rulers tell Israel and other factions in the coastal territory that it they are not interested in sustained violence
By ToI Staff
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