31.   In addition, three suspected Palestinian land dealers were killed last year, Eid said.

32.   In all, three Arab land dealers have been killed in the past month, apparently on suspicion they sold land to Jews.

33.   In all, three suspected land dealers have been killed in the past month and the kidnapping of a fourth was foiled at the last minute by Israeli troops.

34.   In all, three suspected land dealers have been killed in the past month.

35.   Israel arrests suspects in slaying of Arab land dealer.

36.   Israel blamed the Palestinian Authority for the subsequent killings of several land dealers, but Palestinian officials denied involvement.

37.   Israel has sharply criticized the Palestinian Authority for threatening land dealers with execution, and has condemned extra-judicial killings.

38.   Israeli media reports have said the Palestinian intelligence chief in the West Bank, Col. Tawfik Tirawi, apparently was behind the killings of the suspected land dealers.

39.   Israeli news reports have named Tirawi as the key figure behind the killings of the land dealers, a charge he has denied.

40.   Israeli police also plan to distribute alarm buttons, stun grenades and flare guns to the land dealers, Israel TV said.