21.   Both sides said they would try to implement a cease-fire reached in October and work toward easing the Israeli blockade around Palestinian cities, Israel radio reported.

22.   But in comments Tuesday in Vienna, Austria, the Palestinian leader criticized Israeli blockades on Palestinian areas and other Israeli policies.

23.   Deteriorating security and the economic impact of frequent Israeli blockades have shelved such hopes.

24.   Farmer Mousa Zurub watched helplessly Friday as a grubby white donkey munched on a box of cucumbers that had rotted during the Israeli blockade.

25.   Gaza fishermen who had been kept idle for a week by an Israeli naval blockade were permitted to return to the seas.

26.   He said people in the Gaza strip were starving as a result of Israeli blockades of the area and restrictions on work permits for Palestinians to visit Israel.

27.   Lebanon is seeking U.N. action to halt an Israeli naval blockade of southern Lebanon ports and the air raids that have accompanied it.

28.   Legislators had been unable to get together because of an Israeli blockade that confines most Palestinians to their communities.

29.   Malki said Qalqilya faces economic collapse because of the Israeli blockade.

30.   Nearby, Palestinians were forced to scramble down a hillside on foot and climb back up to get around another Israeli blockade.