1.   Also in the Gaza Strip, there were firefights in the town of Khan Yunis near the Egyptian border.

2.   An Israeli army base is located between Rafah and the Egyptian border, and Rafah has been a flash point in the yearlong conflict.

3.   A young, eligible Hittite was sent but was mysteriously murdered at the Egyptian border.

4.   He surveyed desolate Saladin Street, typically a busy market with dozens of shops and stalls leading to the Egyptian border.

5.   His mother says she faces constant rebukes, especially whenever she has to show passports at Egyptian border controls.

6.   His team arrived only hours before the games began after being detained for three nights at the Egyptian border.

7.   In Gaza, tens of thousands of Palestinians attended the funerals of four men killed in a blast near the Egyptian border.

8.   In southern Gaza, near the Egyptian border, Israeli forces destroyed a police post in further retaliation for alleged official Palestinian complicity in attacks on Israeli forces there.

9.   Near Rafah in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian policeman was killed, and two Israeli soldiers were wounded in clashes near the Egyptian border.

10.   Over the course of that day five grenades were lobbed at an Israeli Army post near the Egyptian border.