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Ashkelon, Back in Cross Hairs

[New York Jewish Week] Joshua Mitnick - Over the weekend in Ashkelon, a Hamas rocket landed in the courtyard of the Amit religious high school, spraying tiny metal shrapnel balls that left the walls with giant pockmarks. In an adjacent computer lab, the ceiling tiles were blown out from the force of the explosion, leaving monitors covered in dust and metal frames and a light fixture dangling overhead "Here is what's left of the computer lab," said Tomer Sultan, the computer teacher. "I used to worry about every little virus; now...80% of the computers are dead." The direct hit at the school injured no one because it occurred on a Saturday morning. "If it happened one day later, we would be at war now," said a security guard. Sultan said that Ashkelon residents had hoped that the operation in Gaza would stop the missile fire, but that didn't happen.
2009-03-06 06:00:00
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