101.   The nurses said in the letters they were innocent of the accusations.

102.   The nurses said pay was not the major issue.

103.   A nurse said the young man would survive, but one of his elderly neighbours was not so lucky.

104.   At a hospital at a border transit camp, a nurse said nine people had died, but the situation had been brought under control.

105.   The other person with a gunshot wound was an onlooker who could not immediately be identified, the nurse said.

106.   Nurses said they kept quiet about the deaths for fear of losing their jobs.

107.   Palestinians also broke into the city hospital brandishing a hand grenade to complain of poor treatment of one of their relatives, a nurse said.

108.   The nurses say only Hindu widows wear the colour white and argue that skirts are a legacy of the British Raj.

109.   The nurses said they would not relent either.