11.  Israel has killed dozens of suspected Palestinian militants in targeted attacks since the fighting erupted.

12.  Israel has also killed several Hamas leaders in targeted attacks.

13.  Israel says its targeted attacks are acts of self-defense, while the Palestinians condemn them as assassinations.

14.  Israel, which has carried out many targeted attacks against Palestinian militants, said the gunmen appeared to have been transporting explosives which went off prematurely.

15.  Israel has killed scores of suspected militants in targeted attacks, and Safouri believes he is among those marked for death.

16.  Israel has often carried out targeted attacks against suspected Palestinian militants, a policy that has drawn widespread international criticism.

17.  More than a dozen Palestinians have been killed in such targeted attacks attributed to Israel in six months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

18.  Palestinian militants have often threatened to kill him to avenge the killing of dozens of leading militants in targeted attacks by the army.

19.  Titi is a cousin of Mahmoud Titi, the Nablus leader of the Al Aqsa militia who was killed in a targeted Israeli attack last week.

20.  Two men, members of the militant Islamic Jihad group, were wounded in what Palestinians said was a targeted Israeli attack.