21.  If the current Israeli operation does not succeed in halting Palestinian attacks, it is not clear what military options will remain.

22.  In both cities, people predicted heightened Palestinian attacks in retaliation.

23.  In past decades, Palestinian attacks evoked little clear sympathy for Israel.

24.  In their discussion, Khader countered Badawi on a point of strategy, arguing that Palestinian attacks should be confined to the West Bank and Gaza.

25.  Israeli officials called the bombing a Palestinian attack and held Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, responsible.

26.  Israeli officials concurred with the notion that the recent lull in violence was more apparent than real, citing a series of Palestinian attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers.

27.  Israeli troops have been stationed at the Nablus roadblock since Wednesday in response to a Palestinian attack on an Israeli checkpoint elsewhere that killed six soldiers.

28.  Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has spelled out a strategy of answering Palestinian attacks with increasingly harsh levels of military power.

29.  Israeli police ordered settlers to stay home on Monday after numerous reports of Palestinian attacks on Israeli travelers in the area.

30.  It said a smaller number of Israeli ambulances have come under Palestinian attack.