air strike

noun

: an attack in which military airplanes drop bombs

The strategy calls for air strikes on key targets.

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Israel followed up the pager detonations with the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike and launching incursions in south Lebanon. —

Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024 State Department officials also protested in conversations with their Israeli counterparts over an Israeli air strike that flattened a residential building in northern Gaza and killed dozens of Palestinians, including many children. —

Barak Ravid, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024 Ghadir reluctantly did so, and that night her entire building was destroyed in an air strike. —

Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024 An Israeli air strike early Friday left a four-meter-wide crater by Lebanon's main border crossing into Syria, blocking the road for cars of people fleeing from Lebanon. —

Maya Gebeily and James MacKenzie, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for air strike