41.   Pro-Palestinian groups plan demonstrations in Copenhagen to protest the current Israeli military offensive in Palestinian areas.

42.   Pique repeated an EU demand for immediate and full access for aid workers and journalists to West Bank towns that bore the brunt of the Israeli military offensive.

43.   A number of important Hamas figures were killed or captured during the Israeli offensive in the West Bank.

44.   Ahmed Qureia, speaker of the Palestinian parliament, praised Bush for urging an end to the Israeli offensive.

45.   Arab foreign ministers are expected to meet at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Saturday to explore a heightened response to the Israeli offensive in the Palestinian territories.

46.   Arab League foreign ministers have scheduled an emergency session on Wednesday to discuss the Israeli offensive.

47.   Arafat spoke by phone Friday with foreign leaders and with the media, calling for an end to the Israeli military offensive.

48.   Arafat has been confined to three rooms in his Ramallah headquarters since the Israeli offensive started.

49.   As in other Arab countries, tens of thousands in Lebanon have staged demonstrations since the Israeli offensive began in late April.

50.   But his confinement during the Israeli offensive greatly increased his popularity among Arabs worldwide, who saw him in widely televised images as the symbol of an embattled people.