51.   Out-of-shape Israeli officers stand a chance to be promoted now that the armed forces chief has done away with a stringent fitness test.

52.   Palestinian radio also reported the Israeli officer had come to meet the attacker.

53.   Palestinians on Thursday lobbed a mortar shell into an Israeli-Palestinian liaison office in the Gaza Strip, killing an Israeli officer.

54.   Palestinian sources said the two were involved in an attack last year in which an Israeli officer was killed.

55.   Protesters hurled stones and scuffled with the Israeli officers, and one policeman was injured by a rock.

56.   A few Israeli officers later crossed into the Palestinian side, this time accompanied by a Palestinian liaison officer.

57.   A few Israeli officers crossed into the Palestinian side with a Palestinian liaison officer and found six spent cartridges.

58.   A Palestinian man was shot dead Tuesday after stabbing an Israeli officer near a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, Israeli radio reports said.

59.   A senior Israeli military officer said the arrest operations netted small fish in a media circus.

60.   A Muslim militant opened fire on a cordon of Israeli troops surrounding his hideout Thursday, seriously wounding an Israeli officer before he was killed by army gunfire.