1.   The closure prevents motorists from using the street to travel between Carlsbad and Oceanside.

2.   The security closure has prevented Palestinians from reaching jobs in Israel and the flow of goods into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

3.   But the airport closure prevented that.

4.   Hospital director Mohammad Hilu said the closure has prevented medical teams from going to area clinics or delivering medical supplies.

5.   Internal Security Minister Avigdor Kahalani, a moderate in the new Israeli government, questioned whether a continued closure would prevent future attacks.

6.   Palestinians have complained that the closure is preventing food, medicine and other essentials form reaching them, and is undermining the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

7.   Shahak said the closure prevented attacks inside Israel although soldiers and Jewish settlers remained vulnerable in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

8.   Shahak said the closure prevented attacks inside Israel, but that Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers remained vulnerable in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

9.   Such closures prevent Palestinian workers from reaching their jobs in Israel.

10.   The closure has prevented tens of thousands of Palestinians from reaching jobs in Israel, worsening an desperate economic situation in the Palestinian areas.