A Palestinian teenager carrying a mortar shell and explosives was caught at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank today, the Israeli army said.

An Israeli missile that destroyed a vehicle in Gaza City killed three children as well as two Palestinian militants.

THREE Palestinians, including two children, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip as troops pressed on with a massive nine-day-old incursion in the north, Palestinian medics and the Israeli army said.

Survivors of a US attack on Iraq’s border with Syria say a bomb scored a direct hit on a tent where wedding party revellers were sleeping.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday praised an Israeli army strike in the Gaza Strip that killed 14 Palestinians and wounded more than 100.