21.   A mortar shell fell in an open area of the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in Gaza late Sunday, the army said.

22.   A mortar shell fell Wednesday near Jewish settlements in Gaza.

23.   Artillery shells fell nearby, interrupting the rescue operation and sending people diving for cover.

24.   Artillery shells are falling again.

25.   As the shells fell around them, the horses raced back and forth, without making a sound.

26.   At the height of the barrage, shells were falling at the rate of about one a minute.

27.   Dozens of people were working in the field around dawn when the shells fell near the eastern village of Kumarapuram, the official said on condition of anonymity.

28.   Earlier, mortar shells fell on two kibbutz farming villages next to the Gaza border fence.

29.   Even when no shells are falling and snipers are inactive, life in this once sophisticated and cosmopolitan city is a tenuous existence of bleak monotony.

30.   Folk music and calls for the trapped soldiers to surrender blared from a loudspeaker as shells fell on this embattled town in northwestern Bosnia.