1.   Bracing for a possible revenge bombing, Israel sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip Sunday, keeping tens of thousands of Palestinians from their jobs.

2.   Gallagher blamed the heavy rains of the past winter and spring for keeping tens of thousands of visitors away.

3.   He blamed the heavy rains of the past winter and spring for keeping tens of thousands of visitors away.

4.   They include a loosening of border restrictions that have kept tens of thousands of West Bank and Gaza Strip Arabs from sorely needed jobs in Israel.

5.   They include loosening border restrictions that have kept tens of thousands of West Bank and Gaza Strip Arabs from sorely-needed jobs in Israel.

6.   PLO officials said suffering would only increase if tens of thousands of Palestinians were kept from jobs in Israel.

7.   But the measure also keeps tens of thousands of Palestinian laborers from jobs in Israel and costs the impoverished Palestinian economy millions of dollars a day.

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

9.   However, the Palestinians denounced the closure as collective punishment, saying it would hurt the Palestinian economy and keep tens of thousands of workers from their jobs.

10.   Israel imposed the closure, which keeps tens of thousands of workers from jobs in Israel, after the bombing.