11.   The blockade is so obsessively enforced that it even excludes aid to refugees.

12.   The blockades were the latest in a series of strikes by auto workers, grocery clerks and others.

13.   The idea that the blockade might have been more porous than history has suggested is gaining ground in Germany and the United States.

14.   There was a blockade on the city and a ban on funerals.

15.   Within NATO, the United States has argued that a blockade is justifiable under international law as a means of depriving an enemy of war materiel.

16.   An administrative blockade is not desirable.

17.   Blockades were renewed last week after talks between Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman and Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel late Tuesday produced little progress.

18.   Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh warned that a protracted blockade would be counterproductive, deepening Palestinian resentment.

19.   Government spokesman Jaroslaw Sellin said the blockade was illegal and warned that force could be used to end it, if necessary.

20.   In the case of Ramallah, the blockade had been incomplete, with motorists being able to use several bumpy backroads to get in and out of the city.