Sentence examples for since the hostilities from inspiring English sources

Cradling a baby of 3 months, she said she and her neighbors had been living and sleeping in the shelter since the hostilities began.

Since the hostilities began on Friday, the missile batteries have managed to intercept 54 of the nearly 70 Palestinian rockets that were aimed at the major cities of the south, the Israeli military said.

Militants in Gaza fired a barrage of at least 200 rockets into Israel, killing an Israeli soldier — the first military casualty on the Israeli side since the hostilities broke out.

The attack, the first on the group's Beirut stronghold since the hostilities in Syria broke out two years ago, raised anxieties here that the fighting next door was beginning to revive Lebanon's own sectarian conflicts.

Ismail Haniya, the prime minister of the militant Hamas faction, which won elections in 2006 and took full control of the strip in 2007, appeared in public for the first time since the hostilities began to welcome his Egyptian counterpart, Mr. Qandil.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was flying over the troubled region of eastern Ukraine when it crashed - a route some airlines had chosen to avoid since the hostilities began.

"At least 80,000 have perished since the start of the hostilities, with most of these casualties believed to be civilians," he said.

The United States has already accepted 1,500 Syrian refugees since the beginning of the hostilities and has contributed more than $4 billion in humanitarian aid for them.

And since the end of the hostilities in Lebanon and Gaza in 2006 and 2009 respectively, there has been hardly any violent provocation against Israel coming from either Hezbollah or Hamas.

Since the start of the hostilities in South Sudan on 15 December, an estimated 900,000 people, over half of them children, have been forced to flee from their homes.

There were few if any visible tears at the intense, chaotic, lengthy funeral on Monday of Jamal and seven relatives, among 12 people killed the day before in the single deadliest attack since the latest hostilities between Israel and the Gaza Strip began Wednesday after months of Palestinian militant rocket fire into Israel.