41.   Peres said he opposed Palestinian attempts to persuade the United Nations to deploy peacekeepers in the area to protect Palestinian civilians.

42.   A U.N. force could be deployed with human rights monitors, Annan said, and could create zones to protect civilians from troops or militia.

43.   All parties to the conflict should take more care to protect innocent civilians, she said.

44.   Amnesty International, the human rights watchdog body, Wednesday appealed to the government and Tamil rebels to take all necessary measures to protect civilians in the war zone.

45.   An international panel that monitors a U.S.-brokered agreement to protect civilians in southern Lebanon from fighting resumed work Tuesday after a three-week boycott by Israel.

46.   And U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in an angry letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, accused Israel of failing to protect civilians.

47.   Another area of dispute concerns the extent to which the U.N. troops could protect civilians.

48.   Arafat appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Friday for the deployment of an international peacekeeping force to protect Palestinian civilians.

49.   As the Marines moved in, the Taliban were abandoning some border areas, claiming they wanted to protect civilians living there.

50.   As the Marines moved in, the Taliban were said to be abandoning some border areas, claiming they wanted to protect civilians living there.