1.   Also, Israeli tanks and troops swept into two Palestinian towns and a village in the West Bank, witnesses said.

2.   As a bulldozer worked, the call to prayer sounded from the mosques of two Palestinian towns nearby.

3.   As the casualties have mounted, they have been followed by emotional street funerals in Palestinian towns and villages.

4.   Bethlehem is the fifth Palestinian town to be handed over by Israel under an agreement in September to expand Arab rule.

5.   Boaz, who was Jewish, became a permanent resident of Israel, but he ignored political lines to design houses in this Palestinian town.

6.   A blockade against travel to or from Palestinian towns was enforced and police in Israel were on alert for more attacks.

7.   After the murder of an Israeli politician by agents of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, he sent tanks and troops to invest six Palestinian towns.

8.   After three hours of gun battles, Israeli armor and infantry moved into the Palestinian town.

9.   All stores and schools closed at midday, filling the streets of Ramallah and other Palestinian towns.

10.   But all schedules were knocked out of kilter by complex security problems in the West Bank created by the intertwining of Israeli settlements and Palestinian towns.