11.   Since the start of the Palestinian uprising, the Israeli army has destroyed scores of houses in Rafah during fighting with Palestinian gunmen along the Egyptian border.

12.   The alabaster towers of the new airport rise from a particularly hardscrabble stretch of southern Gaza near the Egyptian border.

13.   The Israeli naval vessel, which was not damaged, was patrolling a zone near the Egyptian border when officers spied a suspicious boat and headed toward it.

14.   When the Hittite ruler complied by dispatching a prince of the royal blood, the prince was killed as he crossed the Egyptian border.

15.   Palestinian security officials said Wednesday that Israeli tanks and army bulldozers entered a Palestinian-controlled area of the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border.

16.   Palestinian officials also said that Israeli forces entered a Palestinian-controlled area near the Egyptian border and opened tank fire on the Rafah refugee camp.

17.   Palestinians said that an Israeli armored force penetrated a short distance into the Gaza Strip on Monday destroying three houses near the Egyptian border before withdrawing again.

18.   A month earlier, the body of an Egyptian border guard was found near the border.

19.   A senior Israeli officer was killed in the fighting, during which shots were also fired from across the Egyptian border, the army said.

20.   Also, Palestinians threw five hand grenades at an Israeli army post near the Egyptian border.