41.   Mpishi said medical workers had difficulty reaching some isolated settlements because current rains made roads impassable.

42.   Most Serbs, however, have left the Prizren area, and those that remain were living in isolated settlements.

43.   On Thursday, Palestinian police and Israeli troops battled each other with automatic fire, and thousands of stone-throwers attacked isolated Jewish settlements.

44.   Palestinian officials demanded that Israel dismantle other small outposts and isolated Jewish settlements to reduce friction further.

45.   Palestinian police spokesman Bilal Salem said Israeli forces near the isolated Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom opened fire on a residential area, killing Osama Salim.

46.   On Tuesday, two Israeli women were wounded, one seriously, in a Palestinian attack near the isolated Jewish settlement of Morag.

47.   Rabin, meanwhile, moved to silence the increasingly heated domestic debate over whether Israel should unilaterally dismantle some isolated Jewish settlements, such as Netzarim.

48.   Rabin said the bombing campaign by Hamas and Islamic Jihad underscored the vulnerability of isolated Jewish settlements located in Palestinian population centers.

49.   Since then, the workers employed in Morag and two other isolated settlements in the Gaza Strip have been ordered by the Palestinian Authority to stay home.

50.   Sharon was responding to a proposal by senior army officers to dismantle some isolated settlements to ease the security burden on Israeli troops.