1.   Also Tuesday, three Palestinian militants were killed by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip.

2.   Another Palestinian militant was killed in an exchange of fire near a Jewish settlement on the Gaza Strip.

3.   By invading Palestinian towns and settlements, the Israelis hope to capture or kill the militants and uproot the infrastructure.

4.   He accused Israel of provoking Palestinian violence through its policy of tracking down and killing militants, including from Fatah.

5.   In another incident, Indian officials said border guards had killed eight militants trying to sneak into Indian-controlled Kashmir from Pakistan.

6.   In a separate incident nearby, two Palestinian militants were killed in a car that exploded in refugee camp in the northern West Bank town of Jenin.

7.   In recent days and weeks, the army has killed suspected militants and launched airstrikes on Palestinian government buildings.

8.   Israel says it invaded Ramallah, like other Palestinian cities and refugee camps, in an effort to uncover weapons laboratories and arrest or kill militants.

9.   It has relied on its extraordinary intelligence, fed by a network of Palestinian informers, to send forces on targeted missions to capture or kill militants.

10.   Just east of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, Israeli commandos tracked down and killed four militants who had crossed the border from Jordan overnight.