air strike

or airstrike

noun

1. the bombing or strafing of a city, enemy force, etc., by military aircraft:

   The air strike devastated the enemy's submarine base.

Word History and Origins

Origin of air strike¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

An Israeli air strike on a five-storey residential block in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza has killed at least 34 people, the local civil defence agency says.

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Trump also ordered the air strike which killed Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani in 2020.

From BBC

An Israeli air strike on an emergency response centre in north-eastern Lebanon on Thursday killed at least 15 rescue workers, officials say, in one of the deadliest attacks of its kind involving Lebanese emergency responders in the war.

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In the southern Nabatieh region, another Israeli air strike on Thursday destroyed the civil defence centre in the town of Arab Salim, killing six people, including five paramedics, the Lebanese state news agency NNA reported.

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The rescue workers had just left when we arrived at the scene of an Israeli air strike on a building in Aramoun, south-west of Lebanon’s capital Beirut.

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Related Words

• air attack
• air raid
• shelling