11.   As settlers took a new hilltop, Ariel Sharon told The Associated Press that such moves were acts of self-defense.

12.   As the settlers took to the streets, leading rabbis issued a religious ruling that soldiers must defy orders to evacuate West Bank army bases.

13.   Before dawn on Monday, Jewish settlers took over five apartments in two buildings in the Arab neighborhood of Silwan, setting off angry confrontations with residents.

14.   Extremist Israeli settlers took advantage of the stalled process and occupied more houses in the old city of Hebron before being evicted by police and soldiers.

15.   He claimed that Palestinians had been using the land illegally, and that the settlers were taking it back.

16.   In recent weeks, Jewish settlers have taken over several West Bank hills and set up mobile homes there.

17.   In the underground firing range, settlers took aim at the outlines of human figures drawn on paper.

18.   In the West Bank, Jewish settlers took over a hill Palestinian gunmen used to fire on an Israeli car earlier in the week, killing the driver.

19.   It announced prominent settlers would take turns living at Netzarim, and threatened mass resistance if Netzarim were to be dismantled.

20.   Jahshan said the owners of the homes fear the settlers will take over their property if it is left abandoned.