1.   Earlier, a bomb exploded near an armored bus in the West Bank on Tuesday, injuring three teenage students from a religious seminary at a nearby Jewish settlement.

2.   Haitham Abu Ayyash, a neighbor, compared the scene to conditions in Efrat, a nearby Jewish settlement.

3.   He was abducted by suspected Palestinian gunmen while he was driving home to the nearby settlement of Kiryat Arba, according to the army..

4.   He was hustled off to detention in the nearby Jewish settlement of Qiryat Arba, and later to Jerusalem.

5.   In a nearby settlement of Dolev on a recent hot afternoon, there were ticking sprinklers on patches of green grass and men washing their cars.

6.   Isareli forces moved in on Tuesday claiming it was in response to sniping and mortar fire on the nearby Israeli settlement of Gilo.

7.   Israeli tanks guarding the nearby Jewish settlement of Psagot then began shelling the buildings, eyewitnesses said.

8.   Israeli forces fired in response to a mortar attack on a nearby settlement.

9.   Some shooting was reported, however, from the West Bank town of El-Bireh toward a nearby settlement, Psagot.

10.   That evening the policemen received what turned out to be the fateful order, instructing them to send a few dozen men to a nearby settlement.