21.   But after the second drive-by shooting death, the Israeli army said that it was reimposing a blockade on Tulkarm that it had partly lifted hours earlier.

22.   But the Chilean army said that the general had no intention of stepping down and that it would not investigate the Prats killing.

23.   But the Israeli army said it was not responsible for the explosion that also wounded three people, two of them children, near the village of Braachit.

24.   But the Israeli army says it is in something close to a state of war with the Palestinians.

25.   By nightfall Israel had begun retaliating with airstrikes in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the army said.

26.   Earlier on Thursday, in an exchange of fire near the West Bank city of Nablus, Israeli soldiers shot dead an armed Palestinian militant, the army said.

27.   Eight Israeli soldiers have been wounded in fighting throughout the West Bank, the Israeli army said.

28.   Early Saturday, Israeli troops again raided the Dheisheh refugee camp inside Bethlehem, arresting one man before withdrawing, the army said.

29.   Even as the withdrawals got under way, Israeli troops and tanks moved into the southern West Bank town of Dora early Tuesday morning, the army said.

30.   Four soldiers were wounded in the fight, the army said.