Sentence examples for empty gaza from inspiring English sources

He was strangled and his body was found in an empty Gaza house on Friday, a day after a fringe group called Tawhid and Jihad claimed responsibility for his abduction.

Following Corporal Shalit's abducation, Israel arrested 64 Hamas parliamentarians in the West Bank and rocketed the empty Gaza office of the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, the senior Hamas figure in the Palestinian government.

This morning, Israeli helicopters fired missiles at an empty Palestinian compound in the Gaza Strip.

The report says: "In addition, during the hostilities, weapons or alleged weapons components were placed in three empty UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militant armed groups".

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon struggled Thursday to advance his plan to evacuate some Israeli settlements without a peace agreement with the Palestinians, proposing that the cabinet vote on emptying just three settlements in the Gaza Strip.

Gaza's streets were largely empty yesterday, with most shops closed and queues only at local bakers where people were stocking up with supplies.

Gaza crisis: Toll of operations in Gaza.

That same day, a bomb went off in a military intelligence office in Rafah, bordering the Gaza Strip, but the office was empty at the time.

Three empty rocket launchers were later seized by soldiers inside the Gaza Strip, the army said.

People are terrified," said Fida Kishta, a resident of the Gaza-Egypt border area where Israeli planes destroyed 16 empty houses.

"Anything inside [the Gaza Strip] is a threat The area has to be 'sterilised,' empty of people – and if we don't see someone waving a white flag, screaming: "I give up" or something – then he's a threat and there's authorisation to open fire..