1.   Israel said it will lift its closure on Palestinian areas and redeploy its forces from areas it seized.

2.   With the agreement on Sunday, Israel announced that it would partly lift the closure on the West Bank and Gaza.

3.   Palestinian officials acknowledge that boycott enforcement will get much more difficult if the closure is lifted.

4.   Peres said Israel would lift the closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Tuesday, after the Jewish holiday Sukkot ends.

5.   Peres said Israel would lift the closure on Tuesday, after the Jewish holiday Sukkot ends.

6.   Peres said Wednesday that neither Clinton nor Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak exerted pressure on Israel to lift the closure.

7.   A Palestinian official told the Bethlehem protesters that the municipal council had telegraphed the summit urging its leaders to get Israel to lift the closure.

8.   A similar summit broke down last Thursday because Rabin refused to lift the closure, prompting Arafat to ask for U.S. intervention.

9.   Arafat is expected to demand that Rabin lift the closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

10.   As the clashes broke out, the Israeli army lifted its closure of Hebron which had barred Palestinians from entering and leaving the city.