Israel would presumably lift its naval blockade.
Civilians are paying the price for the prolonged blockade.
The blockade is likely to last for some time.
The streamer has been captured in running the blockade.
And our data provide evidence that the sleep spindle is a marker of this blockade.
Israeli officials describe the latest attempt to break the blockade as an unnecessary provocation.
Israel's first move was to impose an air and naval blockade on Lebanon.
India's government resolved to send paramilitary troops to break the blockade of Manipur, a state in the remote North-East.
At a May Day rally, Allends charged that the United States was imposing an economic blockade against Chile.
Left unsettled was an issue at the heart of the conflict — Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
But Hamas says it will not stop the rocket fire and other attacks unless Israel opens border crossings into Gaza and lifts its crippling blockade.
We urge Israel to implement relevant Security Council resolutions in earnest, lift the blockade of Gaza and ease the humanitarian situation there.
A further deterioration would quickly follow if Turkey sent its own navy to escort future blockade-busting ships; Israel has said that it would stop any such attempt.
The campaigners knew that either way they would win. If they had got through, it would have been a triumphant breaching of the blockade.
The dispute has led to the blockade of a bridge between the two countries, and a halt to construction work on the mills.
In support of Western policy aimed at bolstering Fatah and at forcing Hamas to recognise Israel and renounce violence, Egypt has joined with Israel to enforce its blockade on Gaza.
Although Israel indicates that it will now substantially ease the flow of goods across its own land-crossings into Gaza, its officials say there will be no let-up in the sea blockade.
After Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Israel - with Egypt's help - imposed a blockade on many goods and most people going into and out of the territory.
The lethal mishandling of Israel's attack on a ship carrying humanitarian supplies that was trying to break the blockade of Gaza was bound to provoke outrage-and rightly so.
