Sentence examples for under a blockade from inspiring English sources

Gaza, ruled by Hamas and shunned by the international community, has been suffering under a blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt for several years.

The United Nations says the Syrian government has agreed to allow aid delivery to the besieged town of Madaya, where residents have said they are starving to death under a blockade by troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad.

Madaya was not listed as under a blockade in a year-end UN report on the situation in Syria, even though UN officials had known about the extent of suffering there for months.

As the conflict dragged on, Biafra buckled under a blockade so brutal it provoked an international outcry: mass starvation, kwashiorkor and mental illness devastated the Igbo landscape, where vultures, those "avian prognosticators of death", circled overhead.

Qatari officials did not immediately respond on Friday, but they have denied supporting extremists and said that they would neither negotiate while under a blockade nor submit to demands that undermined the country's sovereignty.

One recent article on Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen said the kingdom would offer the option of euthanasia for any Yemenis who had not already died of cholera, which has spread under a blockade of humanitarian supplies.

Under international law, a blockade could have been interpreted as an act of war.

Since the removal of 8,000 Israeli settlers in compliance with international law, Gaza has remained under Israeli military occupation and endured three devastating Israeli military assaults, with dreadful psychological consequences for the population, nearly half of which is under age 18, and a blockade that has crushed Gaza's small economy.

These findings indicate that CTLA-4 can increase BcL-XL and BcL-2 expression in a manner similar to CD28, but under conditions that accompany a blockade of anti-CD3 mediated IL-2 production and proliferation (Fig. 1B).

In fact, these results are consistent with several reports that the stimulation of JNK is a prerequisite for cell apoptosis under various conditions, and a blockade of JNK activation results in the prevention of apoptosis (Verheij et al. 1996; Vivo et al. 2003; Xia et al. 1995).

The fleet was carrying aid to the area, which is under a naval blockade.