Sentence examples for rocketed a target from inspiring English sources

After decades of restraint, Israel rocketed a target inside Syria last year, and has lately taken to car-bombing exiled leaders of Hamas, the militant Palestinian Islamist group, in Damascus.

Israeli helicopters rocketed Palestinian targets in the West Bank after a day of surging violence in which Israeli soldiers shot and killed eight Palestinians and wounded dozens more in raging street battles.

In our example, an ADR mission with a chemical propulsion system performs a rendezvous manoeuvre to attach a solid rocket motor to a target object, which subsequently fires under remote command to de-orbit the target.

Five of the rockets hit the Rashid Hotel, a target of previous attacks.

A salvo of rockets could completely straddle a target at a range of 5,500 metres (3.4 mi).

A recording of her comments and a transcript later released by Ms. Ashton's office show slightly different wording and include a reference to children in Sderot, Israel, a target for rockets fired from Gaza.

This has resulted in mishaps: having procured two rockets to target a police station, a group fired one over its roof and the second into a tree.Still, army defectors and civilian volunteers are becoming increasingly audacious.

I have no interest in politics or militancy, but I became a target of their rocket attack.

Speaking to the Guardian, Mahmoud Nasar, said: Since last night Yarmouk has become a target for Syria military rockets.

Israel disagrees, asserting also that a university chemistry laboratory, which it claims was used for making rockets, was a fair target in an attack this week, even if it could not show conclusively that those inside the laboratory at the time where engaged in making weapons.

Al Qaeda-linked militants have claimed responsibility for a rocket attack that targeted a US army compound in Yemen's beleaguered capital Saturday.