31.   Israeli troops seeking to rescue stranded settlers on an outing waged a deadly battle with Palestinian gunmen for five hours Thursday on a rocky West Bank hill.

32.   Israeli troops seeking to rescue wounded settlers waged a deadly battle with Palestinian gunmen for five hours Thursday on a rocky West Bank hill.

33.   Moments after the first of the helicopters disappeared over the rocky hills, Freer walked across the border to meet with a Yugoslav liaison officer for final coordination.

34.   On the rocky hills that surround the city, high-rise hotels, shops and apartment blocks stand near run-down houses.

35.   On a rocky hill north of Ramallah, near the Jewish settlement Kedumim, soldiers had already begun evacuating settlers on Thursday afternoon when the agreement was announced.

36.   One after another, eight artillery shells hit the rocky Himalayan hills, exploding in a puff of yellow smoke.

37.   The Israeli soldiers knocked on the door at midnight, their shouts carried by a cold wind whipping the rocky hills and rugged valleys of southern Lebanon.

38.   The military jeep sped along a dirt path through pastures and chicken farms and halted halfway up a rocky hill bristling with oaks and underbrush.

39.   The next day, he dressed his friends in Arab clothing and sneaked them over the rocky hills to Jerusalem on a rickety donkey cart.

40.   The shooting took place on a dirt road leading to the Jewish settlement Maon, in the rocky hills south of Hebron.