{"id":271537,"date":"2025-10-02T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271537\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:35:10","slug":"rocket-fire-disrupts-yom-kippur-silence-in-ashdod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/271537\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket fire disrupts Yom Kippur silence in Ashdod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Sirens were sounded in the city of Ashdod and the surrounding area on Wednesday evening, at around 8:50 p.m., as Israelis observed Yom Kippur &#8211; the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Residents of the area reported hearing explosions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The IDF Spokesperson\u2019s Unit stated that five projectiles were fired by Hamas terrorists from the northern Gaza Strip into Israeli territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Four of the projectiles were intercepted and one fell in an open area, the statement added. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">On Wednesday afternoon, at around 2:00 p.m., sirens were sounded in the communities located near the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The IDF later stated that two projectiles that crossed from the northern Gaza Strip were likely intercepted by the IAF. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-2a4c3726=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">(Israel National News&#8217; North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Yom Kippur in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sirens were sounded in the city of Ashdod and the surrounding area on Wednesday evening, at around 8:50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":271538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[140942,140943,4527,99,50,29422],"class_list":{"0":"post-271537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ashdod","9":"tag-gaza-rocket-attacks","10":"tag-hamas","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-swords-of-iron"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115303895881660638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}