11. Some of the Palestinian children cannot get past Israeli blockades, so the school has posted the daily lessons on a Web site. 12. Tight Israeli blockades were thrown around the Palestinian towns of Ramallah, Bethlehem and Qalqilya, all in the West Bank. 13. When not immobilized, Palestinians are forced to look for gaps in the Israeli blockades. 14. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat warned, in an interview broadcast Friday, that the six-month Israeli blockade of the Palestinian areas could cause food riots. 15. Palestinian communities have been under Israeli blockade for most of the past five months of fighting. 16. A six-month Israeli blockade of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has cost tens of thousands of Palestinians their jobs. 17. Agriculture has also been hard hit because it was dependent on Palestinian labor, which is frequently unavailable due to Israeli blockades of Palestinian cities. 18. Al-Tayer said the U.A.E. does not believe that peace can be achieved in the light of the Israeli blockade of produce and labor from the Gaza Strip. 19. Arafat blamed the Israeli economic blockade for preventing the arrival of reinforcing stones from the West Bank. 20. Assira has been under Israeli military blockade for more than a week, with residents barred from leaving and entering. |