JERUSALEM, April 11
The Briton, Tom Hurndall, 21, was in the Rafah refugee camp with eight other members of the International Solidarity Movement, a group that uses nonviolent methods to impede Israeli Army actions in the West Bank and Gaza. Snipers opened fire from a tower to the east, said Tom Wallace, a spokesman for the group, citing members who were present.

Mr. Wallace said that Mr. Hurndall had spotted a child who was in the open, and that he retrieved that child successfully before leaving a protected area to escort two other children to safety. "As he went to get the other children, he was shot in the back of his head," Mr. Wallace said.

The shooting occurred between 4:30 and 5, during daylight hours. Mr. Wallace said that Mr. Hurndall was wearing a bright orange jacket with reflective strips, and that no Palestinians were firing in the area.

The Israeli Army said it was investigating the report. But it said it knew of only one instance in which soldiers shot in that area today, to kill what the army said was an armed Palestinian who had opened fire on an Israeli post.

JERUSALEM, Sunday, April 20
Nazeh Darwazeh, 43, a Palestinian cameraman for Associated Press Television News, was hit by a bullet above the right eye while filming a clash between the army and Palestinians, witnesses said. He was the fourth journalist killed in the West Bank in just over a year.

The Associated Press quoted two Palestinian cameramen at the scene, Hassan Titi, with Reuters, and Sami al-Assi, who works with a Palestinian station, as saying the soldier aimed at the journalists.

Video footage taken by Reuters shows a soldier kneeling beside the tank and pointing a rifle down the alley where the journalists were wearing florescent green bulletproof vests that read, "Press." A moment later, Mr. Darwazeh was hit and fell to the ground.

The shooting occurred as army troops were leaving Nablus after arresting two Palestinian women, one of whom was believed to be a potential suicide bomber, and the other her recruiter, said Maj. Sharon Feingold, an army spokeswoman.

As the troops were pulling out, a tank hit a curb and became stuck, and large numbers of Palestinians began throwing stones and firebombs, with some firing guns at the stranded vehicle, she said.

According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, more than 700 Israelis have been killed in acts of terror over the two and a half years since the intifada began.

In the three previous years, when Oslo-mandated security cooperation between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization was in operation, the number killed in Israel was five. Oslo was far from perfect, but it saved hundreds of Israeli lives.(http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/L18MIDE.html)

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 19
Even as Baghdad slowly returns to life, some things are clear. The armed forces have scattered. Almost every government ministry — with the notable exception of the Oil Ministry — was bombed, then looted and burned by Iraqis. Garbage trucks and buses have been stolen, in some cases put back into service by leaders of Shiite mosques already hostile to the American presence here. Banks around the city have been robbed by gangs.

United States military officials here make the point that the precision of the smart-bombs dropped on Baghdad limited damage to the most important infrastructure, including power and water facilities. Col. Mike Marletto, commanding officer of the 11th Marines regimental combat team, who also coordinates with Iraqis and aid groups here, said Iraqi electrical engineers told him that the damage this time was far less than during the gulf war in 1991, when power and water plants were direct targets for bombing.

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There's a pattern here, Israeli's shoot Journalists and always claim they were shooting at someone else. We spare the Oil Ministry buildings in our bombing. We protect those buildings, and no others, from looting and arson and then claim the war was not about oil. We didn't target the Iraqi people, but, a little girl and four servicemen are injured when she hands one a bomblet from a cluster bomb. Cluster bombs are not precision munitions. They're designed to kill and injure the largest numbet of people possible in a given area. So why were they dropped in residential neighborhoods?
A. I.