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cross-border
[ kraws-bawr-der, kros- ]
adjective
- crossing an international border:
cross-border tourist traffic.
Word History and Origins
Origin of cross-border1
Example Sentences
The Israeli military went on the offensive against Hezbollah - which it proscribes as a terrorist organisation - after almost a year of cross-border fighting sparked by the war in Gaza.
Since late September, Israel has pummelled Lebanon with thousands of air strikes in an escalation of its campaign against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed group it has been fighting in nearly a year of cross-border strikes.
Those include staffing the State Department with ideological allies who will pressure foreign governments to accept deportees; reallocating resources from ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit, which is focused on cross-border crimes like drug smuggling and human trafficking; enlisting the National Guard; and constructing hundreds of detention camps and hiring tens of thousands more enforcement agents.
The latest example of this came when it was accused of being complicit - as Uganda's Observer newspaper put it - in the "brazen cross-border abductions" of 36 Ugandan opposition supporters in July.
Israel went on the offensive against Hezbollah after almost a year of cross-border fighting sparked by the war in Gaza.
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