Besieged

And Qatar was involved in promoting the “four towns agreement,” which saw the displacement of inhabitants of Sunni towns besieged by Hezbollah in exchange for the displacement of inhabitants of Shi’ite towns besieged by the rebels.

A line of circumvallation would also be constructed, facing in towards the besieged area, to protect against sorties by the defenders and to prevent the besieged from escaping.

During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times. citation According to Eric H. Cline's tally in Jerusalem Besieged.

Abdel-Rahman Habat, of the Cairo-based Life Makers Foundation, stressed that current aid levels are insufficient for meeting the basic needs of the besieged population.

Alarm has grown over the fate of Palestinian civilians in blockaded and besieged Gaza – one of the world’s most densely populated areas, home to 2.4 million people – if it becomes the scene of intense urban combat and house-to-house fighting.

Amid repeated, recent violent Israeli incursion into the West Bank, the Israeli Air Force bombed the besieged Gaza Strip early on Tuesday morning.

An Israeli warplane fired last night one missile at a target in the besieged Gaza Strip causing damage but no casualties, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

A second humanitarian convoy has entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt as Israel continues its relentless bombardment of the besieged area, resulting in the deaths of 55 people overnight.

As I ponder the incalculable suffering of children, I read the following lines in the poem “Report from the Besieged City,” by the late Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, in a translation by John Carpenter and Bogdona Carpenter.

As part of the cease-fire on Friday, about 200 trucks carrying emergency aid also made their way into the besieged area.

A young white woman named Joan Naydich was teaching in a Florida high school—one which, says the news story "has been besieged by violence in recent years".

But just the fact that Democratic lawmakers are making that link signals the fractures in Congress amid the daily scenes of suffering among besieged Palestinian civilians.

But the people who have been living in Gaza, blockaded, besieged, decimated economically and politically, have nothing to lose.

Close to 100 Armenian Americans and supporters gathered in front of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Tuesday to rally for the thousands of ethnic Armenians in the contested and besieged region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Concerns over a spiralling humanitarian crisis inside the besieged territory have amplified calls for an end to the hostilities, while incidents linked to Iran-backed groups acting in solidarity with Hamas have fanned fears of a wider regional conflict.

Customers on Tuesday besieged various commercial banks in the ancient city of Kano to either get the new naira notes or deposit the old notes in order to beat the January 31 CBN deadline.

During the meeting, the Jordanian monarch called for de-escalating the situation in Gaza and protecting civilians, stressing the urgent need for humanitarian corridors for relief aid into the besieged enclave.

Even patients suffering from cancer struggle to access treatment and live under the mercy of Israeli permits that allow them to step out of the besieged city to access medical services in other areas, such as the West Bank.

For the besieged residents of Gaza who have so far survived Israel's bombs and bullets, a silent, invisible killer is now stalking them: disease.

Gaza's besieged people had barely any communications with the outside world as Israeli jets dropped more bombs on the Hamas-ruled Palestinian enclave and military chiefs said a long-threatened ground offensive was gearing up.