1.   Behind the Palestinians, five Palestinian ambulances are parked.

2.   A report from an American group, Physicians for Human Rights, earlier this month cited Israeli shooting at Palestinian ambulances as a violation of international law.

3.   A Palestinian ambulance driver said he had eventually picked up Assibaa to take him to a local hospital, but Israeli forces arrested the wounded man at a checkpoint.

4.   After Alloul and senior Palestinian officers arrived at the tomb and tried to calm the crowd, Palestinian ambulances plowed through the throngs to reach the tomb.

5.   After the wounded soldier was moved from the Palestinian ambulance, the colonel said, he sped back to the tomb in the ambulance.

6.   But Israelis say the Palestinian ambulances sometimes are used as cover to transport ammunition.

7.   In another clash, in Beit Sahur, south of here, a Palestinian ambulance driver was killed while trying to help the wounded, Agence France Presse reported.

8.   Israeli troops have shot at Palestinian ambulances and Israeli settlers have stoned and kicked them.

9.   Israeli troops did not permit journalists, Palestinian ambulances or the Red Cross into the village Wednesday, saying that the military operation was still under way.

10.   Jacquier was being transfered from a Palestinian ambulance, which took him out of Nablus, to an Israeli one which transported him to Jerusalem.