1.   A withdrawal would still leave troops ringing Ramallah and virtually blockading the city, which is just north of Jerusalem.

2.   But here, too, Israelis have indicated that troops and armored vehicles will form similar chokepoints around the perimeter, effectively blockading the city.

3.   Children are traumatized, cities blockaded, roads closed, the economy devastated and the landscape blighted.

4.   Russian forces blockaded the city for two weeks and pounded its outskirts with artillery and rockets.

5.   Russian troops moved from the north, west and east to blockade the city.

6.   The city was blockaded.

7.   The withdrawal still leaves troops ringing Ramallah and virtually blockading the city, which is just north of Jerusalem.

8.   Troops continued to blockade the city and impose a curfew on its residents, holding out the possibility that they would re-enter.

9.   Arafat has said it is impossible for the Palestinians to hold elections with the Israeli army was blockading Palestinian cities.

10.   In Gudermes, Russian troops continued to blockade the city on Tuesday.