1.   Armed attacks against Israeli settlements are on the increase.

2.   The controversial issue of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories was the subject of intense internal and international debate during March and April.

3.   His call for the Israeli government to take the initiative for peace was interpreted as an appeal for a freeze on Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories.

4.   Ashrawi said that the proposals were designed to perpetuate Israeli settlements and to foster apartheid.

5.   Topics included the nature and jurisdiction of the proposed interim authority, the withdrawal of Israeli forces, Jerusalem, Israeli settlements and security.

6.   Among the most difficult issues addressed by the Saudi proposal are the future of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the borders of any Palestinian state.

7.   And he led the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai after the Camp David peace accords, leveling the evacuated Israeli settlements there with explosives and bulldozers.

8.   And he led the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai after the Camp David peace accords, leveling the former Israeli settlements there with explosives and bulldozers.

9.   And Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man as he tried to place a bomb near an Israeli settlement, the Israeli army said.

10.   Arafat has also demanded that a complete freeze on all Israeli settlement construction be simultaneous with any cessation of violence.