1.   As Brazilian officials acknowledge, rebels regularly cross the border to buy food and medicine because Brazilian border settlements are easily accessible and they need not fear capture there.

2.   But at Kibbutz Misgav Am, a border settlement on a ridge above Metulla, Nurit Rapoport was not convinced.

3.   But with so much emotion attached to each remote border settlement, that appears unlikely.

4.   On Monday the crew of a riverboat ferried them to a border settlement.

5.   After the Israeli shelling, the army ordered the residents of border settlements in northern Israel to spend the night in underground shelters.

6.   But it could invite more, rather than less, violence if the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas launched attacks on Israeli border settlements.

7.   But it could invite more, rather than less, violence if the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas attack Israeli border settlements.

8.   David Bar-Illan, a senior adviser to Netanyahu, said Israeli commanders could not guarantee the safety of border settlements if Israel withdrew.

9.   Ecuador has never accepted the border settlement that cost it half its territory.

10.   Electricity cables were severed and power went out briefly in several smaller border settlements.