exercises. Israeli planes sprayed weedkiller along the Palestinian side of the border barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The reason given was to improve Israeli visibility into the area. According to Palestinian sources, the effect was to damage crops or areas set aside for spinach, broad beans, barley and wheat planted far from the buffer zone. The complaint was being examined according to Israeli sources. 25 January Palestinians threw Molotov cocktail at the fence of the Israeli settlement of Migdal Oz, causing a fire. No one was injured. Hussein Salem Abu Ghush (24) from the Qalandiya refugee camp reportedly tried to ram his vehicle into a group of Israelis standing at a hitchhiker's bus stop on Wednesday evening near a gas station in Kokhav Ya'akov in the West Bank. He was shot and killed by people present at the scene. A search of the vehicle discovered a knife in the driver's possession. Omar Nathir Ibrahim al-Barghouthi (26) reportedly opened fire on an Israeli military vehicle near the village of Aboud in the West Banka, and was shot by soldiers in response. 26 January An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded in the foot in clashes that ensued when Israeli forces raided the Jenin Refugee Camp to arrest 2 men suspecting of being members of Hamas, and Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs. It is not known which side caused the soldier's wound. A car, the ethnicity of whose driver was not reported, injured lightly an Israeli soldier when the vehicle drove through the Beitunia checkpoint without stopping. Israeli bulldozers uprooted 500 14-year-old olive trees, planted over six acres of land under Palestinian cultivation outside the village of Kharas. They represented the only source of income for Mohammad and Faisal Moussa al-Hroub's families. 27 January A Palestinian man opened fire at a vehicle near the Israeli settlement of Nili. The vehicle was damaged and no one was injured. 3 Palestinians were shot by rubber-coated steel bullets fired by Israeli forces during a night-time raid on the Jenin Refugee Camp. Those injured were Muhammad Lamiya Dbaya, shot in the leg and Ishaq Rafiq Abu Shahla and Malek Muhammad Amer, both wounded in the chest. 29 January Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Khalifa (19) of Jenin was shot dead at the Jenin Refugee Camp with a live bullet in the lower back. 5 other Palestinians were wounded. Israeli sources say pipe bombs were thrown