1.   The streets are quiet now, but a sort of graffiti war rages on surrounding walls.

2.   Gaza, an impoverished strip of land wedged between Israel and Egypt on the southern Mediterranean, was the obvious arena for a graffiti war.

3.   Not wanting to be licked in the graffiti war, one police major even took a spray can into his own hands.

4.   The graffiti war is on.