11.   The supposedly friendly forces traded automatic gunfire for hours on the outskirts of the autonomous West Bank towns of Ramallah and Bethlehem, following riots by Palestinians.

12.   Hundreds of Palestinians blocked Israeli authorities Wednesday from building a fence between this newly autonomous town and Israeli-ruled territory.

13.   Israeli Arabs called a strike to express solidarity with the Palestinians following days of deadly raids in autonomous towns and refugee camps in the territories.

14.   Israeli forces have moved incessantly in and out of autonomous Palestinian towns since ending their month-long invasion of the West Bank last month.

15.   Israeli tanks early Friday entered Nablus, hours after a Palestinian killed five Israelis in an attack on a settlement near the autonomous town, Palestinian sources said.

16.   Israeli tanks encircled the six main Palestinian autonomous towns on the West Bank as combat helicopters stood ready to take off, military officials said.

17.   Israelis were also banned from entering the autonomous Palestinian towns on the West Bank and Gaza.

18.   Israel wants the autonomous West Bank town to be the headquarters of the Palestinian Council running self-rule.

19.   Israeli announced Friday that it had withdrawn from all autonomous Palestinian towns it had recently reoccupied, following heavy US pressure.

20.   A Palestinian stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli Tuesday in a joint Israeli-Palestinian security office outside this autonomous West Bank town, Israeli military officials said.