In the exchange the skies filled with the smoke of multiple rocket launchers, artillery and antiaircraft fire.

CNN: Capital has look of a battlefield

"We were up on hills looking across Jerusalem, looking across at the Dome of the Rock and we saw a plume of smoke in the distance, which was a rocket landing, " he said.

CNN: Gaza conflict deters Bethlehem Christmas pilgrims

This declaration is blazoned on a giant 1950s Cold War-era rocket fuselage, fully equipped with laser lights and a smoke machine, on the corner of N 35th Street and Evanston Ave North.

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