{"id":50957,"date":"2025-10-02T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/50957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T09:42:07","slug":"rocket-fire-disrupts-yom-kippur-silence-in-ashdod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/50957\/","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":2,"featured_media":50958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34256,1466,51,85,46,43,22103],"class_list":["post-50957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-ashdod","tag-gaza-rocket-attacks","tag-hamas","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-swords-of-iron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}