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Ashkelon
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Ash·ke·lon or Ash·qe·lon  (shk-ln, äshk-lôn)
An ancient city of southwest Palestine on the Mediterranean Sea. Inhabited as early as the third millennium b.c., it was a seat of worship for the goddess Astarte.


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eINThe PLC deputy noted that Gaza Palestinians are being detained in Al Naqab because of a lack of space in the investigation rooms of Askelon, Jalama and Petah Tikva.
Every time Sky shows a demolished Palestinian house a roofless building in the southern Israeli towns of Sderot or Askelon inevitably follows.
The current air strikes on Gaza, and continuing rocket attacks on Askelon, Sderot and other towns in southern Israel, only prove how dire the situation is becoming.
 
 
 
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