1.   He has been careful not to complain about his own privations, speaking instead about the suffering of Palestinians generally under the Israeli security closures and economic blockade.

2.   The security closure has prevented Palestinians from reaching jobs in Israel and the flow of goods into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

3.   Palestinian hard-liners have branded its principal a collaborator with Israel and Israeli security closures have cut its enrollment by half.

4.   Palestinians are hunkering down these days, forced to stay put by tightened security closures and afraid Israel will eventually retaliate for the worst suicide bombing in five years.

5.   An Israeli-imposed security closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip prevents most Palestinians from entering the Jewish state.

6.   Children have seen family members idled by an Israeli security closure that keeps tens of thousands of laborers from jobs in Israel.

7.   Easing its security closure of the West Bank, Israel on Wednesday allowed thousands of Palestinian Christians to visit Nazareth and Jerusalem for the festival of the Annunciation.

8.   For example, the Palestinian economy is in tatters, but most Palestinians blame Israel for commercially strangling the territories with security closures rather than their leader.

9.   In a first gesture, Israel was to ease security closures that have severely disrupted daily life in the Palestinian areas.

10.   Hundreds demonstrate against Israeli security closure.