51.   However, with the peace talks deadlocked, Palestinians warn that continued settlement expansion could provoke riots in the West Bank and Gaza and kill any prospects for peace.

52.   Hundreds of Palestinians protest against settlement expansion.

53.   Hundreds of Palestinian women scuffled Saturday with club-wielding Israeli border policemen in a protest against Jewish settlement expansion and Israeli policies in Jerusalem.

54.   Hundreds of Palestinians, some throwing stones, marched in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday to protest Jewish settlement expansion.

55.   In defending Jewish settlement expansion, Netanyahu has said in the past that the government had to build more homes to accommodate natural growth.

56.   In Ramallah, the mediators met with Palestinian experts who have prepared maps, slides and video clips on Israeli settlement expansion, land confiscation and Israeli security closures.

57.   In their first meeting in six months, Palestinian negotiators warned their Israeli counterparts that Jewish settlement expansion was threatening peace-making.

58.   Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been a champion of settlement expansion for years.

59.   Israeli peace group to monitor settlement expansion from the air.

60.   It was not clear whether the U.S., which opposes settlement expansion, would place restrictions on any aid package it approves, the official said.