21.   They have also protested that Israeli actions this week like sealing off the coastal strip amounted to collective punishment.

22.   U.N. and Western aid officials have condemned the razing of houses as illegal collective punishment.

23.   Palestinian leaders and human rights groups have condemned the practice as collective punishment.

24.   Palestinian leaders have condemned the closures as collective punishment.

25.   Palestinians call it collective punishment.

26.   Palestinians call the measures collective punishment.

27.   Palestinians charge that the Israeli restrictions are economic pressure and collective punishment for the violence.

28.   Other human rights groups warned summit participants against condoning collective punishment or other violations.

29.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat demanded at the summit that Israel ease the siege, saying it constituted collective punishment and spawned hatred that could lead to more violence.

30.   Palestinians have complained that the blockade constituted collective punishment.