Al-Hamah (Arabic: الهامة; also spelled al-Hameh) is a small village in Syria west of Damascus on the Barada river. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, al-Hamah had a population of 10,045 in the 2004 census.[1] The town was the target of repeated raids and attacks by the Israeli military,[2] especially prior to the destruction of an early PLO training camp located on the town's outskirts. One of the more notable attacks occurred during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War; where Israeli fighter jets attacked a power plant that was in the middle of the town, destroying it completely and killing 87 people.
Syria
