31.   The guards said they feared the prisoners could be targeted in Israeli rocket attacks on the city.

32.   The Israeli rocket assault Wednesday was the third in the past week.

33.   The target was Jihad al-Mussaimi, who escaped with minor injuries after an Israeli rocket hit his car.

34.   In Ramallah, a car carrying three passengers was hit by an Israeli rocket, security sources said without elaborating.

35.   A member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and a second Palestinian were killed on a farm near Tulkarem in a hail of Israeli rockets earlier Thursday.

36.   Abu Qweik told AFP that his wife was taking his son and two daughters to school when an Israeli rocket hit the car.

37.   The Palestinian security sources said that earlier two Palestinian civilians had also been injured by Israeli marine rocket fire in the same area of Beit Lahia.