1.   An army statement said the strikes were a response to a Palestinian mortar attack on Saturday that killed an army reserve soldier guarding the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom.

2.   Army brass has dismissed the reservists as a marginal group that do not reflect the opinions of most reserve soldiers and officers.

3.   Reserve soldiers who signed the statement argued that some of their orders were illegal.

4.   Still, to many Israelis the action looked like a retreat, and reserve soldiers compelled to do duty there protested.

5.   The checkpoint was manned on Sunday entirely by reserve soldiers.

6.   The Israelis say that a car full of reserve duty soldiers took a wrong turn, bringing them into downtown Ramallah.

7.   The second reserve soldier soon died.

8.   With Yossi Avrahami, a fellow reserve soldier, he was stabbed, stomped, beaten and burned to death at a Palestinian police station.

9.   A reserve soldier, Menashe Mekonnen, said he shot one of the gunmen in the head.

10.   After two Israeli reserve soldiers were killed by a crazed Palestinian mob in Ramallah Thursday, many Israelis wondered whether Barak should even be talking to Arafat anymore.