11.   The attacks came one day after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up at an Israeli checkpoint on the West Bank, wounding three Israeli policemen.

12.   The cerebral Israeli policeman Michael Ohayon returns in the fourth in a series of mysteries, this time investigating the murders of classical musicians.

13.   The grisly scene showed an Israeli policeman brandishing a club behind a bloody young man identified as an injured Palestinian.

14.   The Israeli Justice Ministry revealed that five Israeli policemen were being investigated for beating a Palestinian man arrested on suspicion of being involved in the murders.

15.   There were no injuries because Israeli policemen cleared the area after a shopowner reported the bag as suspicious.

16.   Three Israeli policemen were wounded.

17.   Osher said the attack lasted only a few minutes and that one of the gunmen was disguised as an Israeli policeman.

18.   Palestinian merchants standing in the doorways of their shops were quickly flanked by Israeli policemen as Chirac approached.

19.   A bomb exploded Sunday in a hothouse at a Jewish settlement in the PLO-ruled Gaza Strip, wounding two Israeli policemen, a settler spokeswoman said.

20.   A bomb exploded Sunday at a Jewish settlement in the PLO-ruled Gaza Strip, wounding two Israeli policemen.