11.   Such demonstrations begin with noon prayers, and usually finish in a few hours.

12.   The government was prepared for noon prayers on Friday, sending hundreds of helmeted riot police with batons and rifles to the mosque.

13.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who attended Friday noon prayers at a Gaza City mosque, refused comment Friday when asked about a likely Netanyahu victory.

14.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who attended noon prayers today at a Gaza City mosque, refused to comment on the elections.

15.   Palestinians also staged protest marches elsewhere in the West Bank after Muslim noon prayers Friday, but there were no immediate reports of violence.

16.   Palestinians planned to hold Friday noon prayers at the site slated for construction -- known in Hebrew as Har Homa and in Arabic as Jabal Abu Ghnaim.

17.   Outside the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, scores of Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli police after noon prayers and set fire to a small police post.

18.   Palestinian youths burned tires and threw stones at Israeli soldiers after the teen-agers finished Muslim noon prayers at a mosque in this tense West Bank city.

19.   Police clashed with stone-throwing demonstrators who took to the streets after noon prayers Friday to protest a cutback on religious schooling.

20.   PLO police surrounded the Palestine Mosque during noon prayers to stop militants from marching to the home of a suicide bomber who killed three Israeli soldiers a week ago.