as in siege
the cutting off of an area by military means to stop the flow of people or supplies
the devastating beleaguerment of Leningrad that lasted from September 1941 to January 1944
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On Translation Muhammad Shehada chronicles the history of the decades-long siege on the people of Gaza.—
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El Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, was the last major holdout in the wider western Darfur region, under total siege for more than 18 months before falling to the RSF.—
Guy Davies,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
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Most Gazans who had come of age or graduated from university in 2006 when Israel’s blockade was imposed were in 2023 reaching the second half of their thirties without ever having had a job, despite their impressive educational achievements.—
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China has also ramped up military pressure on the island, including near-daily flights across the midline of the Taiwan Strait and large-scale exercises simulating a blockade.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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