Sentence examples for bombardment from inspiring English sources

Amnesty says that half the city's population have been displaced by "a campaign of indiscriminate air bombardment by government forces, which have also reduced entire areas to rubble and killed and maimed countless civilians".

As the bombardment continues, it's the futility of it all that's so deafening.

Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.37pm BST14:37 Horrific aftermath of bombing of Yarmouk in Damascus Very disturbing video footage has emerged purporting to show the aftermath of a mortar bombardment on the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in south-east Damascus.

Mohammed al-Kafarna, the mayor of Beit Hanoun, a northern town which saw fierce fighting and heavy bombardment, said 70% of homes were uninhabitable.

The director of the hospital told the Guardian that it was a "heavy artillery bombardment".

#gaza It comes after the Israeli military claimed photographic proof of rockets being fired from the Wa'afa hospital which was hit by Israel's bombardment last week.

Pleasure ships sailed from Marseille to watch the bombardment and the beach landings.

The cables also reveal that the former Mossad chief Meir Dagan personally lobbied senior South African intelligence officials in October 2009 against the country endorsing the findings of a UN inquiry, led by South African judge Richard Goldstone, into alleged war crimes carried out during Israel's three-week bombardment and invasion of Gaza in 2008/09.

Officers quickly swept people westward with a brief bombardment of smoke, gas and pepper balls, which explode with an irritant.

Such "spamizdat" is also alive and well in democratic countries with bombardment techniques like astroturfing and "snowing".

4 February: Activists claim 200 people are killed on the opening day of the bombardment, the highest death toll reported for a single day in the 11-month uprising.