11.   He then crosses the checkpoint guarded by soldiers to check in with his employer, a settler who often has a gun tucked in his belt.

12.   A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops while trying to cross a checkpoint near the northern West Bank town of Nablus, Palestinian witnesses told AFP.

13.   A spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent said the men were trying to cross a checkpoint north of Ramallah towards the village of Surda when they were hit.

14.   Cars with Palestinian plates remained barred from Israel and workers had to cross checkpoints on foot and be picked up by their employers on the other side.

15.   Cars with Palestinian number plates remained barred from Israel and workers had to cross checkpoints on foot and be picked up by their employers on the other side.

16.   Trouble erupted when the guards tried to stop preventive security men from crossing a checkpoint outside a house where Arafat stayed in the town last weekend.

17.   We tried to take him to hospital but he died with us as we were crossing the checkpoint in our car.

18.   Some trucks with Turkish license plates cross the checkpoint at Faida, between Dahuk and Mosul, to enter Iraqi government-held areas.

19.   The army also sealed off all Palestinian towns, cities and villages, and shot one man trying to cross a checkpoint in Ramallah, seriously wounding him.

20.   The ex-prisoners crossed the checkpoint on foot and were immediately swept up by cheering and crying friends and relatives.