11.   Other settlers said Kfar Darom was no different from cities and towns inside Israel that had been the targets of suicide bombings over the past year.

12.   Settlers say that that Palestinians have stoned and sometimes shot at their cars.

13.   Several settlers said they believed there were two gunmen, but the army said there may have been three.

14.   Settlers at Halamish said that their neighbors had acted under threat.

15.   Settlers say Jewish presence in Palestinian territory is not a matter for negotiation.

16.   Settlers also say they provide security for Israel, as a sort of first line of defense.

17.   Such talk has led the Hebron settlers to say they feel betrayed and to predict an explosion in the near future.

18.   The gunmen shot him in the head, threw him out of the car and drove off to the Palestinian-held part of Hebron, settlers said.

19.   The government calls the actions dangerous assaults on law and order, while the settlers say they are following a democratic tradition of nonviolent civil disobedience.

20.   The government has called the actions illegal assaults on law and order, while the settlers say they are following a democratic tradition of non-violent civil disobedience.