Word: ashdod
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...Hamas promised that the attack would be the first of five in retaliation for February's rampage by an Israeli settler at the mosque in Hebron. On Thursday, a Palestinian gunman from the Islamic Jihad group shot an Israeli dead and wounded four others near the southern town of Ashdod. Following a speech in Hebron by the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday, the I.D.F. shot eight Palestinians with live and rubber bullets. Hamas warned that it would engulf the occupied territories in "real war" and vowed to turn Israel's independence day, April 14, "into hell." Israel responded by sealing...
Upon the dissipation of the immediate tension from the Hebron massacre, the peace process was dealt another possible blow on April 6 and 7. In two separate Palestinian terrorist acts in the Israeli cities of Afula and Ashdod, eight Israelis were killed and 48 injured-bringing the number of Israelis killed by Palestinians since last September 13 to 38. The Palestinian fundamentalist group Hamas claimed responsibility for the Afula attack, and declared that four more attacks would be forthcoming, including one tomorrow, on Israel's Independence Day, that would "turn your independence day into hell...
...scary," she says. "One old woman smashed a television with a broom when she saw a picture of a fire." Now Nadou, 21, is firmly entrenched in the Israeli middle class. She and her husband Eyal, a construction worker, own a three-room apartment in the coastal city of Ashdod. Two of her brothers are in the Israeli army, and another recently graduated from college. "We've been transformed into Israelis," she says in fluent Hebrew. "Ethiopia seems very far away...
...trade-off. Her first life ended in 1981, when she fled to Israel after Ethiopian government troops raided her village school in the Gondar province, hauling away suspected rebels. "I cried and cried when I first got here," she says. Now she works at a child-care center in Ashdod and refuses to teach her three children her native language. "I don't want to even think about Ethiopia," she says. "There was too much suffering." Her sole indulgence in the past is listening to Ethiopian music on her tape player, which offers the only safe passage back...