#ashkelon

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(Quds) Israeli occupation forces arrested foreign journalist and human rights activist Andrey X in Tel Aviv after he put a “Free Palestine” sticker on a memorial in Sderot.

In a post on his account after being released following four days in an Israeli jail, he confirmed that he was assaulted before being abducted and was severely beaten by the forces with no reason other than their sadistic pleasure.

He added that he was then taken to Ashkelon prison, where for the course of four days he was dragged around courts and holding cells, strip-searched multiple times, and at times denied food and water, kept in the cold.

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Incoming rocket sirens are sounding in Ashkelon and nearby communities, following apparent rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.

It marks the first time in a month that sirens have sounded in the southern coastal city.

[dearearlyarchaeologists]

I don’t know how to hold this. My excavation is in Israel. Just two months ago I got back from a summer there.

Every (hopefully) person I just met in Ashkelon has fled their homes. The woman who helped me sort out my change in a corner store without a cash register screen. The man who welcomed me to his country. The families in the park celebrating Shabbat together with music and food. The gift shop woman who consistently got me a strawberry slushy.

This was the city that was bombed. This was the city they evacuated. They were not other. They were not lesser.

These people are losing a home for who knows how long. These people are losing their lives and their friends and their family and the people who smile at them when they walk down the street and their doctors and their bankers and every employee that’s ever given them change back.

Yet there are people cheering in the streets on both sides of this fight.

I went to the Southern Levant to study a culture long lost. To revive our knowledge of it and to understand it for what it was and what it means for us now. But I do not care to uncover something lost if I do not have anyone to give it back to.

People are dying. Civilians and soldiers alike. People are being massacred on both sides. People are dying.

I cannot hold this alone.

[workersolidarity]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Footage from Hamas fighters in Ashkelon

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6,000-Year-Old Copper Fishhook Discovered in Israel

The hook, most likely used for catch sharks or other large marine animals, will be exhibited on April 3 at the 48th Archaeological Congress.

A 6,000-year-old copper fishhook—one of the oldest ever found—was discovered in 2018 during excavations prior to the construction of the new Agamim neighborhood in Ashkelon, the Israel Antiquity Authority (IAA) revealed on Wednesday.

The hook, most likely used to catch sharks or other large marine animals, will be exhibited on April 3 at the 48th Archaeological Congress.

“This unique find is 6.5 cm long and 4 cm wide, its large dimensions making it suitable for hunting 2–3 m long sharks or large tuna fish. More ancient fishhooks found previously were made of bone and were much smaller than this one,” said the IAA’s Yael Abadi-Reiss, co-director of the excavation.

“The use of copper began in the Chalcolithic period, and it is fascinating to discover that this technological innovation was applied in antiquity for the production of fishhooks for fishermen along the Mediterranean coast,” she added.

In the Chalcolithic period there were large villages around Ashkelon, whose economies were based on agricultural practices still common today, such as the pasturing of sheep, goat and cattle, the cultivation of wheat, barley and legumes and the tending of fruit orchards.

“We learn about the dietary habits of the people who lived here 6,000 years ago from the remains of animal bones found in ancient rubbish pits, from burnt wheat grains found in ovens, and from the hunting, cooking and food-processing tools retrieved, including flint sickles, and a variety of pottery vessels that served for the storage, cooking and the conservation of food by fermentation and salting,” said Abadi-Reiss.

“The rare fishhook tells the story of the village fishermen who sailed out to sea in their boats and cast the newly invented copper fishhook into the water, hoping to add coastal sharks to the menu,” she added.

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Borisov Beach Tel Aviv Mediterranean Israel

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PRESENTATA AL PUBBLICA SPLENDITA TOMBA ROMANA COMPLETAMENTE AFFRESCATA, ASHKELON, ISRAELE

PRESENTATA AL PUBBLICA SPLENDITA TOMBA ROMANA COMPLETAMENTE AFFRESCATA, ASHKELON, ISRAELE La straordinaria arte tombale del periodo romano ha una sua forma espressiva in una tomba scoperta vicino alla spiaggia nella città di Ashkelon, nel sud di Israele, e finalmente viene mostrata al pubblico per la prima volta, un secolo dopo il ritrovamento della struttura realizzata con una volta a botte, una decisione di consentire al pubblico di vedere...

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Dipinti murali romani di straordinaria bellezza rivelati al pubblico per la prima volta ad Ashkelon, in Israele [LE FOTO]

ARCHEOLOGIA | Dipinti murali romani di straordinaria bellezza rivelati al pubblico per la prima volta ad Ashkelon, in Israele [LE FOTO]

Elena Percivaldi Due tombe a volta, decorate con magnifiche pitture murali raffiguranti personaggi mitologici, piante e animali, saranno presto svelate al pubblico per la prima volta. Gli affreschi, che datano ad almeno 1.700 anni fa, si trovano in un’area pubblica vicino al porto turistico di Ashkelon, in Israele. Il Comune, in collaborazione con l’IAA – Israel Antiquities Authority, ha deciso…

[thetheoreticaljehovist]

Gather yourselves together, yes, do the gathering, O nation not paling in shame. Before [the] statute gives birth to [anything], [before the] day has passed by just like chaff, before there comes upon YOU people the burning anger of Jehovah, before there comes upon YOU the day of Jehovah’s anger, seek Jehovah, all YOU meek ones of the earth, who have practiced His own judicial decision. Seek righteousness, seek meekness. Probably YOU may be concealed in the day of Jehovah’s anger. For, as regards Gaʹza, an abandoned [city] is what she will become; and Ashʹke·lon is to be a desolate waste. As regards Ashʹdod, at high noon they will drive her out; and as regards Ekʹron, she will be uprooted.

Zephaniah 2:1-4, NWT

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A chunk of an intercepted rocket hit a car in Ashkelon, causing damage. MDA says no injuries.

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Le mystère du cimetière de chiens de Ashkelon

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/le-mystere-du-cimetiere-de-chiens-de-ashkelon/

Le mystère du cimetière de chiens de Ashkelon

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2024- What's Your Word Heading into this Year?

This “Tradition” started a couple years ago (in 2022) with a group of friends from a Bible Study group I unexpectedly joined in October 2021. I say “unexpectedly” because I wasn’t looking for a group to join, I only went to be supportive of a friend who wanted to check it out, at the last minute one evening. So I went and ended up joining the group. Reflecting on this and knowing who God is, this…

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Ashkelon Port

photographed by Israel Bardugo