Hama

Hama

Hama is a city on the banks of the Orontes River in west-central Syria north of Damascus. It is the provincial capital of the Hama Governorate. Hama is the fourth-largest city in Syria—behind Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs—with a population of 696,863...

 is a different city in Syria.

Al-Hama الهامة(also spelled Alhama, Alhame, Elhama, Elhame or alhameh) is a small village in Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

 west of Damascus

Damascus

Damascus , commonly known in Syria as Al Sham , and as the City of Jasmine , is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo, both are part of the country's 14 governorates. In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major...

 on the Barada

Barada

The Barada is the main river of Damascus, the capital city of Syria. It flows through the spring of `Ayn Fijah , about 27 km north west of Damascus in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, but its source is Lake Barada, located at about 8 km from Zabadani...

 river. The town was the target of repeated raids and attacks by the Israeli military

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4116, http://www.giwersworld.org/israel/terrorists.phtml, http://justworldnews.org/archives/LETTER%20TO%20AN%20ISRAELI%20MOTHER.doc, http://www.krysstal.com/democracy/display_acts.php?article=1972_lebanon,http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/04/14701.php, 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

Yom Kippur War

The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War or October War , also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War and the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, was fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria...

; Israel fighter jets attacked a power plant that was in the middle of the town, destroying it completely and killing 87 people.

Towns with similar names

Al-hama is our town الهامة

Hama: حماة is a large city in the middle of Syria

• Al-Hamma, Tiberias
  Al-Hamma, Tiberias
  Al-Hamma is a depopulated Palestinian Arab village in the District of Tiberias, 12 km southeast of Tiberias. Situated on a narrow strip of land in the Yarmouk valley, it was one of the stations on the Jezreel Valley railway, linking the Hejaz Railway to Haifa.-History:The Old Testament...
  
  , Alhammeh, Alhama, Alhamma: الحمة is a town in the Golan area in South of Syria, currently occupied by Israel, and part of it is also in Jordan, It has hot spring with mineral water. It is a popular tourist attraction