11.   Similarly, the Israeli soldiers there started the day with obvious orders to use their fire sparingly, Palestinian witnesses said.

12.   Some Palestinian witnesses asserted that the incident happened differently, and that Jewish settlers played a role in the violence.

13.   The prisoner, Muhammad al-Jundi, was shot to death four days ago on a street in the Jabaliya refugee camp, Palestinian witnesses said.

14.   There were no reports of casualties in the assault, which Palestinian witnesses said ended several hours after it began under the cover of darkness.

15.   They said Palestinian witnesses reported that he had been killed by attackers in a passing car.

16.   Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said the soldiers fired live ammunition to disperse the stone-throwers.

17.   Palestinian witnesses said a second passenger was seriously wounded.

18.   Palestinian witnesses said a tank opened fire at the gunman after he emerged from the car carrying an assault rifle.

19.   Palestinian witnesses said about one-fourth of the building, in the lower three floors, had been blasted away.

20.   Palestinian witnesses said an armed Palestinian inside the church was also wounded.