11.   Also in Gaza, a roadside bomb exploded near a convoy of army and settlers, injuring none but leading to a gun battle.

12.   But four Palestinian teenagers were wounded by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip and three Israeli troops were hurt by a roadside bomb in the West Bank.

13.   Hamas has taken to planting the same sorts of roadside bombs that the extremist Lebanese group Hezbollah relied on to kill Israeli soldiers.

14.   In the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, for example, a roadside bomb went off near an Israeli army convoy, and Palestinian gunmen then opened fire.

15.   Islamic Jihad claimed Sunday that Israeli forces tried but failed to kill one member by activating a remote-controlled roadside bomb when his car passed by.

16.   It was a Lebanese journalist with a rumor, proven false within a half-hour, that a roadside bomb had killed more Israeli soldiers.

17.   Kadyrov said on television that a roadside bomb went off as his convoy was traveling to Grozny, the Chechen capital, but no one was seriously injured.

18.   Last Wednesday night, two Israeli soldiers were killed and two were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded.

19.   Nearly every week, Israeli newspapers feature the faces of more young soldiers killed in Hezbollah rocket and roadside bomb attacks.

20.   Near Tulkarm, soldiers also shot dead another Palestinian said to have been planting a roadside bomb with an accomplice who escaped.