Ashdod residents pay high price for lack of emergency medical facility

Ashdod residents pay high price for lack of emergency medical facility

January 19, 2009 Perspectives

 The anger and frustration etched onto the faces of local citizens whose lives were turned into an instant nightmare when Grad rockets were fired from Gaza into Ashdod, Israel’s fifth largest city, this past weekend, was raw and very human.

Despite the "ceasefire", a Grad rocket fell without warning on a home along Ashdod’s beachfront on Sunday. [Naftali Kolski photo]

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