Live Update 
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Hamas threatens Ashkelon with major rocket barrage, warns residents to leave home by 5 p.m.
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
An Ashkelon resident and his son make their way to safety after a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorists hit a building in the southern city, October 9, 2023 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The spokesperson for Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida, threatens the southern coastal city of Ashkelon with a major rocket attack in the coming hours.
“In response to the enemy’s crime of displacing our people and forcing them to flee their homes in several areas of the Gaza Strip, we give the residents of the occupied city of Ashkelon a deadline to leave before 5 p.m.,” Abu Obeida says on his Telegram channel.
