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air strike
noun
the bombing or strafing of a city, enemy force, etc., by military aircraft.
The air strike devastated the enemy's submarine base.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of air strike1
Example Sentences
An 11-year-old Palestinian boy who survived an Israeli air strike in Gaza last month, which killed his father and nine siblings, is being evacuated to Italy for treatment.
Sinwar, 49, was killed in an air strike on 13 May, which the Hamas-run civil defence agency said killed 28 people and injured dozens.
A Palestinian doctor whose children were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza on 23 May has died from injuries sustained in the same attack, health officials say.
The Hamas-run interior ministry said seven of its police officers deployed to a market in Gaza City on Thursday were killed by an Israeli air strike as they attempted to restore order and confront what it called "looters".
Last Friday an air strike in Khan Younis killed nine of a Palestinian doctor's 10 children.
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