21.   An Israeli colonel was killed in the fighting, during which shots were also fired from across the Egyptian border, the army said.

22.   An Egyptian border official said the Palestinians who want to cross must have at least a one-year residence permit for another country.

23.   An Egyptian border official said the Palestinians who want to cross must have at least a one-year residence permit in another country.

24.   At the Palestinian airport in Gaza, near the Egyptian border, Israeli and Palestinian officials drilled security procedures for checking passengers.

25.   Biro said thousands of people had been forcibly moved from camps in the Nuba mountains -- a remote northern area near the Egyptian border -- to eastern Sudan.

26.   Both men were from Rafah, a town on the Egyptian border.

27.   But their condition is better because Egyptian border officials have provided shelter and food for them.

28.   Earlier, Palestinians traded fire with Israeli soldiers near the Egyptian border after army bulldozers demolished a Palestinian police post, Palestinian officials said.

29.   Earlier reports said the plane landed in Tobruk, near the Egyptian border, but Egyptian officials later said it was Martubah.

30.   Early reports said the plane landed in Tobruk, near the Egyptian border, but Egyptian officials later said it was Martubah.