21.   Hours after the sides issued promises to avoid bloodshed, Israeli soldiers traded gunfire with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border.

22.   Hours later at least some were surrounded by police and were trading gunfire, Interfax said.

23.   In October, settlers touring near Mount Ebal in the northern West Bank traded gunfire for five hours with Palestinians and had to be rescued by Israeli combat helicopters.

24.   In the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers on Monday repeatedly traded gunfire with the Palestinians.

25.   Indian and Pakistani troops traded gunfire across the disputed Kashmir border for the fifth day in a row Tuesday, killing at least one villager, officials said.

26.   Indian militants have traded gunfire with police.

27.   Indian and Bangladeshi border guards traded gunfire after Indian villagers started planting fields of tea along the northern border, an official said Thursday.

28.   Indian and Pakistani border troops trade gunfire.

29.   In the following hours, they traded gunfire with police, burned mattresses and tires, destroyed the roof and made holes in the walls.

30.   Israeli troops and Palestinian militants traded gunfire on Monday in the main street of Hebron, an almost daily event.