during the operation , the pace of both rocket fire and shelling increased Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale dramatically , and the idf mounted numerous ground incursions into the gaza strip to target Aiming militant groups and their infrastructure , including smuggling Committing_crime tunnels in the philadelphi corridor .

The deadly clashes ravaged Destroying Europe ; 20 percent of the total population of Germany died Death during the conflict and there were losses up to 50 percent in a corridor between Pomerania and the Black Forest .

As Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has warned Warning , `` everything possible will be done to prevent the existence of a Shi'ite corridor from Tehran to Damascus '' .

The battle Hostile_encounter began Process_start when the IDF launched Motion Operation Abiray-Lev ( `` Stouthearted Men '' ) , attempting to establish Coming_to_be a corridor to the canal and allow Preventing_or_letting bridges to be laid Placing for a crossing Motion_directional .

This was an attempt to establish Achieve a land and rail corridor from the Japanese occupied territories of Manchuria , Northern and Central China and Korea and those in South East Asia .

Within this corridor , aircraft operate Being_in_operation under visual flight rules , under which the responsibility to see Perception_active and avoid Preventing_or_letting other air traffic rests with the individual pilots rather than with the air traffic controller .

since atc is often unwilling to grant Commitment this discretionary vfr clearance because of traffic volume , many airplanes that need to transit Having_or_lacking_access the new york metro area use the vfr corridor as an alternative to going Self_motion east of the city ( over water ) or west ( toward pennsylvania ) .

The corridor is also heavily used Using by helicopter tour companies , which take Causation passengers on sight-seeing tours of the New York skyline .

Due Causation to the layout of the theater , special forces would have had to fight Hostile_encounter through of corridor and attack Attack up a well-defended staircase before they could reach Arriving the hall in which the hostages were held Defending .

When the German advance began Process_start to compress a corridor from the west of the city along the Dutch border to the coast , through which the Belgians at Antwerp had maintained contact with the rest of unoccupied Belgium , the Belgian Field Army commenced Process_start a withdrawal westwards towards the coast .

This action was taken within Laos due to the location of North Vietnam 's expanding logistical corridor known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail ( the Truong Son Road to the North Vietnamese ) , which ran from southwestern North Vietnam , through southeastern Laos , and into South Vietnam .

The operation successfully opened Openness a land corridor wide to the city .

A railroad was swiftly built Building through the corridor which allowed Preventing_or_letting more supplies to reach the city than the Road of Life across the frozen surface of Lake Ladoga , significantly reducing Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the possibility of the capture of the city and any German–Finnish linkup .

The corridor remained Preserving within range of German artillery , and the Red Army did not finally lift the siege until a year later , on 27 January 1944 .

The North Vietnamese Army occupied Control the area to use Using for its Ho Chi Minh Trail supply corridor and as staging area for offensives into South Vietnam .