Israel blockaded the population.

As a result, Sukhumi was blockaded.

German troops blockaded Western Holland, turning away all shipments of food.

Men, women and children of all ages, elders in wheelchairs, have blockaded the only road access to the interior.

It is not, as some would have it, a matter of victory for the blockaded nation and defeat for the blockading nation.

In the autumn of 1944, the darkest days of World War II, German troops blockaded Western Holland, turning away all shipments of food.

It would be unable to compensate for that loss by relying on Lebanese seaports or Beirut s airport, because both could easily be blockaded.

The French Navy was unable to prevent a British naval blockade of France during the Napoleonic Wars, and spent much of the war blockaded in port.

The emerging stew of Weltpolitik thickened even more with Israel s pre emptive move in international waters to stop a flotilla supposedly bringing relief aid to blockaded Gaza.

But there is more if this is a case of bilateral relations, then there are two blockaded peoples, that of Cuba and that of the United States.

War resumed in 1803 and Napoleon attempted to assemble a large enough fleet from the French and Spanish squadrons blockaded in various ports to cover an invasion of England.

Palestinian dependence on Israeli goods exacerbates the problem, as does Israeli control over the movement of goods and people to, within, and between the West Bank and the blockaded Gaza strip.

The navy was a major participant in the Vietnam War, blockaded Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and, through the use of ballistic missile submarines, became an important aspect of the United States' nuclear strategic deterrence policy.

The French Revolutionary Wars (1793 1801) and Napoleonic Wars (1803 1814 and 1815) saw the Royal Navy reach a peak of efficiency, dominating the navies of all Britain's adversaries, which spent most of the war blockaded in port.

The selfless solidarity of Cuba, a small, blockaded country of the third world, should serve as an example to spur other, immensely rich States and the international bodies to offer the necessary aid to those whom nature has harshly affected.

Moreover, this will also increase the distance between the Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan and the remaining part of the Republic from 46 kilometres to 136 kilometres, which will make it absolutely impossible to transport goods to that blockaded region of the Republic.

Had the United States Government allowed the United Nations to act in accordance with the Charter, the Iraqi people would not have been invaded so that they could be robbed of their petroleum, the Palestinian people would exercise sovereignty over their territory and Cuba would not continue to be blockaded.