31.   Israel appeared ready Tuesday to lift its siege of the Nativity Church as negotiators finalized a deal to exile or imprison wanted Palestinian militants trapped inside for five weeks.

32.   Israeli and Palestinian officials have traded accusations over the photo, which the Israeli army said it found in the home of a wanted militant in Hebron.

33.   Israeli minister without portfolio Tzippi Lvini of the right-wing Likud party, meanwhile, said that the Israeli policy of targeted assassinations of wanted militants would continue.

34.   Israeli troops blasted a HAMAS hideout with anti-tank rockets killing a wanted militant after a siege here Friday, witnesses said.

35.   A few days earlier Abdel Fattah had told local officials and residents that a group of wanted militants was hiding in the village, they said.

36.   A wanted militant was shot dead Sunday by Qena residents, the official news agency MENA reported.

37.   According to Al-Hayat, the three were on a list of wanted Islamic militants which Cairo presented to Islamabad following the signing of the extradition treaty.

38.   Al Dawiya is considered the hometown of a large number of wanted fundamentalist militants in the province, the sources added.

39.   Cairo namely blames Khartoum of failing to provide information on the presence in Sudan of wanted Egyptian Moslem militants.

40.   Egyptian security forces killed a wanted Moslem fundamentalist militant during a shootout in southern Egypt on Thursday, police sources said.