11.   Collective punishment, brutality and needless humiliation diminish the willingness for reconciliation and compromise.

12.   For Palestinians, it was a day of collective punishment as thousands of Israeli troops at dawn mobilized a massive show of force on the West Bank.

13.   In Fawwar on Monday, the Israelis fought back with collective punishment, a tactic that may be used more often in coming weeks.

14.   It amounts to collective punishment, Palestinians say.

15.   Israel has responded with excessive force and closures that independent human rights organizations define as collective punishment.

16.   On Sunday, it extended this territorial closing for at least another week, prompting new denunciations on Monday from the PLO, which calls it collective punishment.

17.   Only Palestinians are subjected to collective punishments.

18.   Palestinians call the measure collective punishment barring thousands of people from their livelihoods.

19.   Palestinians assert that it is collective punishment, disrupting the lives of thousands of Arabs to protect a few hundred Jews.