11.   These days, he strides confidently among the younger rock throwers on the hillside that has become a daily confrontation point here.

12.   Thursday, Israeli forces in Gaza shot and killed five Palestinians in a refugee camp during a day-long exchange with rock throwers and gun men.

13.   Tires are set ablaze to form a wall of black smoke that obscures the position of the rock throwers.

14.   Union leaders and march organizers quickly formed a human barricade to separate the police from the rock throwers.

15.   Palestinian rock throwers dropped face-down in the streets, seeking cover amid sustained blasts of automatic rifle fire.

16.   After daybreak, Palestinian rock throwers confronted Israeli troops along the main street of Hebron, in the West Bank.

17.   Another threat came Saturday morning, in a telephone call warning the Metropolitan Bus Authority that rock throwers might attack its buses operating in San Juan.

18.   Authorities had fire engines turn their hoses on the rock throwers, but later also sprayed nonviolent protestors, including one student holding a flag, they said.

19.   The youthful army of Palestinian rock throwers has all but disappeared, no longer darting and dashing around the perimeter of Israeli military positions.

20.   Thousands of Palestinian rock throwers and several gunmen clashed with Israeli troops Saturday in what Palestinians said was a religious war over a bitterly contested Jerusalem shrine.