Sentence examples for captured gaza from inspiring English sources
The reference to "the 1967 Israeli-Arab war," when Israel captured Gaza, doesn't note how the war came about.
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It almost captured Gaza (behind a pocket containing a young Egyptian army officer called Gamal Abdul Nasser) in 1948, in the war Israelis know as their war of independence.
It captured Gaza again in 1956, as part of a secret plan hatched with Britain and France to topple Nasser as Egypt's president and restore British control of the Suez Canal.
Before he departed in October 1799, Napoleon captured Gaza and Jaffa (part of modern Tel Aviv), but the roguish Sir Sidney Smith engineered a huge British victory at Acre, the city known as "the key to Palestine".
It is there in the background all the time, of course, as the central historical and strategic issue that his faced this country since the Middle East war of 1967 when it captured Gaza from Egypt and the West Bank from Jordan.
The same night, this second attempt to capture Gaza was called off.
A second attempt was made to capture Gaza on 19 April by which time the Turkish defences were even more formidable and the task confronting the British even more difficult.
The settlement was revived after Israel captured the Gaza Strip.
By the end of the war, Egypt captured the Gaza Strip and controlled it for nearly the next 20 years.
But the latest cartoon - which was widely broadcast on Israeli TV - was remarkable for the personal and callous nature of the appeal on an issue that has profound emotional resonance for many Israelis: The fate of Schalit, who was captured by Gaza militants in June 2006.
