Israeli undercover troops snatched two wounded Palestinians from their West Bank hospital beds in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday. The troops entered the intensive care room, imposed a curfew on the patients and doctors and carried the two men - members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a doctor, who spoke on condition on anonymity said. The men - Othman Younis, 27, and Fahid Bani-Odeh, 25 - are in Israel's Beilinson Hospital and being treated for moderate injuries, military sources said. The truce collapsed last Thursday after Israel killed a top-ranking Hamas political leader in retaliation for a Jerusalem bus bombing a week ago in which 21 people were killed. Since the bombing, Israel has killed two senior Hamas members - and another five activists in the group - in pinpoint missile strikes which marked the renewal of Israel's policy to hunt down and kill Palestinian activists. The latest missile strike, on a Gaza beach front late Sunday, forced senior Hamas members to go into hiding, while the group's spokesmen turned off their phones. Hamas leaders were conspicuously absent from funerals Monday for the four men killed in Sunday's missile strike. Hamas leaflets hung in mosques throughout the Gaza Strip instructed members to take precautions - such as not traveling in groups, avoiding use of their telephones, using makeup to disguise themselves and staying off main streets - so as not to be easy targets for Israeli "assassination." **Zionists Begin Building 'Apartheid Wall'*** Bulldozers cleared land east of Jerusalem as Israel moved ahead with the construction of a new segment of its barrier through the West Bank, shrugging off criticism from both the Palestinians and the US. Israel says the planned barrier - 595km of fences, trenches, razor wire and concrete walls - is a defensive measure designed to keep Palestinians militants from crossing into Israel to carry out attacks. But the barrier has outraged Palestinian leaders, who often call it the "apartheid wall" and say it is part of an Israeli land grab. The barrier is one-fourth finished, including sections north and south of Jerusalem. Israel began confiscating Palestinian lands for sections east of Jerusalem more than a week ago, and workers broke ground on the section east of Jerusalem on Friday, the Israeli defence ministry said. Yesterday, with the golden dome of the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's old city visible in the distance, a surveying team lined up the route in the neighborhood of Abu Dis. Israeli soldiers kept guard around the site as bulldozers moved earth next to an olive grove, but there were no reports of protests. The new barrier is to stretch north and south from the existing wall, and critics say it will force tens of thousands to use just one road - manned by Israeli soldiers - to get in and out of the area. Olive farmer Youssef Qombar, 62, said he found a confiscation order pinned to a tree and that the fence will cut through the middle of his property, located south of Abu Dis in Al-Sawahreh Al-Sharkia. "I don't know why the Israelis are building it," he said. "I think that the only reason is to confiscate the lands." **Palestinian Rockets Fired at Jewish Settlement*** Three Qassam-type rockets were fired early today at a Jewish settlement in the southern Gaza Strip, without causing any injuries, an Israeli army spokesman said. "The three rockets were fired from the Beit Hanun area entirely under the control of the Palestinian Authority. One of them hit an empty field while the other nearly hit an inhabited house," he said. **PHOTO CAPTION*** A Zionist soldier adjusts his tank's gun at the Erez crossing into the Gaza strip, August 25, 2003. (REUTERS/Tsafrir Abayov)