61.   Near the Erez checkpoint of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian who tried to stab a soldier was shot dead, the army said.

62.   Nearby gunmen, not the children, were the targets, the Israeli army said Saturday in a statement.

63.   No injuries were reported, the Israeli army said.

64.   Near the West Bank city of Jenin, the Israeli army said troops shot and killed four armed Palestinians.

65.   None of the mortars fell in a settlement or inside Israel, the army said.

66.   One of them had been seriously wounded and the other was said to be ill, the Israeli army said.

67.   One Israeli soldier was killed and another seriously wounded in Jenin, the army said.

68.   One of those deaths is under investigation as a possible crime rather than a terror attack, the army has said.

69.   Palestinian neighborhoods are sometimes blockaded by Israeli troops, sent to prevent terrorism, the army says.

70.   Palestinians said they had removed some of the dead, and the Israeli army said it had also begun removing bodies, respectfully.