HIGHLIGHTS: Tanks Fire Live Bullets At Stone-Throwers||Palestinians Say Aim of Destroying PA HQ in Hebron Was to Level A Symbol of Palestinian Independence||So-called 'Rouge Settlements'-a Deliberate Israeli Attempt to Legalize Under Israeli Law What's Illegal Under International Law|| STORY: A Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli gunfire in the al-Fara refugee camp south of the West Bank town of Jenin, Palestinian medical sources told AFP. Muhammad Ahmad Mubarak, 12, who came from the camp, was killed after two Israeli tanks and a number of military vehicles went into the camp and began firing tear gas and live bullets at people who were throwing stones, the sources said Saturday.(Read photo caption)

AN OCCUPATION ARMY FAILURE

Israeli occupation troops searched Saturday through heaps of smashed concrete and metal, but found no sign of several so-called wanted Palestinians who Israel said might have escaped massive explosions at the Palestinian headquarters in Hebron.

Many Palestinians doubt the men were even inside when the four-day siege ended at a government and security compound early Saturday, maintaining Israel only wanted to deliver another blow to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's administration.

However, others described the operation as one that the Israeli occupation army wouldn't dare describe as 'Mission Accomplished'.

TEN SO-CALLED 'ROUGE' SETTLEMENTS TO GO

Ten illegal settlements in the West Bank will be dismantled in the next 24 hours, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Saturday.

Earlier in the week, Ben-Eliezer vowed to remove 20 of the hilltop outposts, even if he had to send in the army to forcibly remove the settlers, many of whom say they have a biblical right to the land they believe God gave the Jews.

The Defense Ministry must approve any new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip - lands Israel occupied in the 1967 war and which Palestinians want for a future independent state.

Ben-Eliezer told Israeli television the outposts that will be dismantled initially are those that are most dangerous. Some are far removed from the larger settlements, have no security fence around them and consist of nothing more than a mobile home and an Israeli flag. The army has said the outposts are vulnerable to Palestinian attacks.

The move is seen by Arab analysts as an attempt to cloud the issue of settlements legality. According to international law all Israeli settlements built on occupied Arab lands are illegal and will have to be dismantled. 'No,' says Israel, 'Settlements on occupied Arab land are legal but only if they were licensed by the Israeli occupation army.'

PHOTO CAPTION

Palestinian children, friends of Bassam Al-Saadi, 7, walk past his body enroute to the funeral at the Jenin cemetery, June 27, 2002. Al-Saaidi was killed overnight as Israeli forces, buoyed by a tougher U.S. line against the Palestinians, increased their massive military operation in the West Bank. REUTERS/Mahfouz Abu Turk
- Jun 27 12:55 PM ET