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If government forces do set up a blockade, it would double the number of people living under siege in Syria virtually overnight.

Mr. Netanyahu would then have only terrible choices: annex those areas that the Palestinians don't control in the West Bank, set up a blockade of the new Palestinian state (which would cost Israeli businesses $3 billion in exports a year) or send Israeli boys to recapture the West Bank from the self-declared Palestinian state.

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He has set up a blockade around Ouattara's hotel headquarters, forcing the opposition team to rely on the U.N. for food and protection.

In a residential suburb, Adjame, the police beat up students and children who set up a blockade outside the marketplace, witnesses said.

According to Reuters "players and staff were left stranded inside the vehicle for four hours as angry fans set up a blockade by lighting bonfires in front and behind the bus so it could not move".

As the protests grew, scores of National Guard troops in riot gear and gas masks fanned out around the Xcel Energy Center, where the convention is being held, and set up a blockade about three blocks away.

The number of refugees at the fence would have been even greater had the Lebanese army not set up a blockade halfway down the mountain preventing thousands of others from joining the protesters below.

Liberian soldiers have now set up a blockade to stop people from the affected western regions entering the capital of Monrovia, while Sierra Leone has imposed a complete blockade of eastern areas suffering from Ebola.

To halt further incursions, Malaysian and Filipino naval ships have set up a blockade between the southern Philippines and Sabah, a distance that can be traveled by speedboat in about an hour.