1.   Police then discovered three other nuns in the adjoining convent with serious injuries that would shortly claim the lives of two of them.

2.   Hundreds of Palestinians have taken refuge in the church and an adjoining convent run by the Franciscans.

3.   The army accuses the fighters of holding the priests hostage inside the vast church and its adjoining convents, a charge denied by the clerics.

4.   The army accuses the fighters of holding the priests hostage inside the church and its adjoining convents, a charge denied by the clerics.