1.   Also in Gaza, Palestinians fired five mortars at army positions.

2.   And Palestinians fired mortars on Israeli territory just east of Gaza on Thursday night.

3.   Arafat publicly ordered the armed factions to stop firing mortars at Jewish settlements.

4.   As the patrol made a hurried get-away, the Russians cried out that the rebels were preparing to fire a mortar round at the peacekeepers.

5.   As the militants raced through the minefield and a nearby pathway to the village, Russian troops fired mortars while helicopters blasted the rebels from overhead.

6.   A NATO spokeman in Sarajevo said he had no evidence that mortars had been fired by either side.

7.   A statement by Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees said the three were returning from an attempt to fire a mortar at an Israeli target.

8.   Earlier in the day, Palestinians fired several mortars at Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, but no one wounded.

9.   For the second day in a row, Bosnian government soldiers also fired mortars from positions inside Sarajevo, drawing a sharp rebuke from the United Nations.

10.   In Gaza, Palestinians fired mortars that landed beside greenhouses in a Jewish settlement.