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A police officer is killed and four others are injured in a mass shooting on Highway 4 near Ashdod, Israel. The gunman is killed by a passing armed civilian.
2024-10-15

Shin Bet and the Israeli Defence Forces announce the arrests of eleven suspected members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group off the Gazan coast suspected of planning an attack on the Israeli Navy.
2018-04-4

The Israeli Navy intercepts and takes control of the lone ship still involved in Freedom Flotilla III and pilots it to Ashdod. The other three ships involved had already turned back after being intercepted. Israel offered all ships to unload their humanitarian aid cargo in Israeli ports and transport it into Gaza for free but the ships refused.
2015-06-29

Several rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel and exploded near the cities of Ashdod, Netivot and Ashkelon causing no casualties. The IDF retaliated with airstrikes against empty Hamas training camps in Gaza.
2015-06-4

The Israeli Navy boards two ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists en route to the Gaza Strip.
2011-11-4

Israel's navy confiscates a French yacht bound for Gaza, which departed from Greece and attempted to run the blockade after repeated warnings to make for Ashdod instead. No casualties are reported.
2011-07-19

A ship bound from Libya, the "Al-Amal", due to deliver humanitarian aid from Algeria, Morocco and Nigeria to the Gaza Strip, changes course for Egypt after being warned to stay away by the Israeli Navy and receiving pressure from the United States to "act responsibly".
2010-07-13

The Israeli Navy kills four Palestinians wearing diving gear; Israel says they were carrying weapons and planning an attack, off the coast of Gaza.
2010-06-7

A number of Israeli warships follow the Gaza-bound international flotilla as it nears its destination and an aircraft flies overhead.
2010-05-31