1.   Israel should move on these issues, and did temporarily ease closures last month.

2.   Israel should take immediate action to ease closures and allow peaceful people to go back to work.

3.   It is time, they said, for Israel to respond by easing the closures on the West Bank and Gaza and stopping new construction in Jewish settlements.

4.   Israel partially eased closures and other restrictions imposed during the last few weeks of violence.

5.   The country has since eased the closure.

6.   Then, he has argued, Israel could begin easing closures in areas that remained peaceful.

7.   Peres spokesman Yarden Vatikai said Menem asked the Israeli leader to ease the closure on the West Bank and Gaza.

8.   Over the past few days, Israel has taken some steps to ease the closure, including allowing food convoys into Gaza.

9.   Palestinian officials said they expected Israel to start easing the closure within the next two days.

10.   A Jordanian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the kingdom will ask Israel to ease its closure of Palestinian territories.