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Incursion meaning
A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of destruction, plunder, or bodily harm rather than an intent to conquer territory or alter the established government; contrast invasion in its narrow sense. | An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense. | A function hosted within an educational institution, especially by or for students, for recreation, research, education or a display of works.
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Amid repeated, recent violent Israeli incursion into the West Bank, the Israeli Air Force bombed the besieged Gaza Strip early on Tuesday morning.
China’s incursion into Chumar in Ladakh in 2014 took place just a week before India’s Prime Minister Narendra his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on his 64th birthday.
Colborne said on Twitter that Ukrainian military intelligence “very likely” approved the incursion.
Fabrizio Carboni, the regional director for the Near and Middle East for the ICRC, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that this includes the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas during its unprecedented incursion into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
Facing a relentless aerial bombardment and now a ground incursion by Israeli forces in Gaza, Hamas leaders have been pushing — sometimes publicly — for Hezbollah to widen its involvement in the war.
Fierce fighting has continued in Gaza as Israeli forces continue their incursion into the Palestinian territory.
Former hostage Uthai Saengnuan called for a minute’s silence to remember the 39 Thais known to have died in Hamas’ unprecedented Oct. 7 incursion into Israel.
Gaza’s largest city is the focus of Israel’s campaign to crush Hamas following its deadly Oct. 7 incursion — and the Israeli military says Hamas’ main command center is located in and under the Shifa Hospital complex.
Gaza’s largest city is the focus of Israel’s campaign to crush Hamas following its deadly October 7 incursion — and the Israeli military says Hamas’s main command centre is located in and under the Shifa Hospital complex.
He knows Irons is an unpredictable genius in the field, viewing this incursion as a man who could bring his empire down.
However, no arrests were reported during the Israeli incursion.
If the incursion was — to use Antony Blinken’s words — “a clear violation of our sovereignty” and “a clear violation of international law”?
In 2008, Israel lost nine soldiers during its incursion.
Indeed, in the space of a few seconds Liverpool survived yet another incursion down their right side before turning it into the decisive attack.
In March, there was a terrorist incursion into Israel from southern Lebanon, from where 34 rockets were fired into Israel the following month.
Israel declared a “complete siege” after the Hamas incursion, sealing its border with Gaza and amassing troops and tanks along the boundary.
Israeli soldiers during an incursion in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Dec. 14.
NTSB investigating Feb. 22 runway incursion at Bob Hope Burbank Airport that occurred when a Skywest Embraer 175 was departing Runway 33 as a Mesa Airlines CRJ9 executed a pilot-initiated go-around as it was inbound for landing on the same runway.
SARARO, Iraq (Reuters) - Looming over the deserted village of Sararo in northern Iraq, three Turkish military outposts break the skyline, part of an incursion that forced the residents to flee last year after days of shelling.
Since launching its incursion, Israel’s military has been tight-lipped about how many troops it has committed to its biggest operation in years.