The day before, his windshield had been hit by a big rock in the Palestinian town of Ramallah.

The checkpoints dismantled in the last few days had tended to limit movements from one Palestinian town to another.

Reports from Palestinian towns spoke of near-total compliance with the strike.

The shooting took place near the Palestinian town of Qalqilya.

Only four of 708 Palestinian towns, however, were connected to the water supply at the time.

But it's often impossible for me to travel from one Palestinian town to the next.

Seven of the eight major Palestinian towns are under a 24-hour curfew.

All the while, the army continued its daily raids into Palestinian towns in search of militants.

But the message was that they had failed to reach agreement on when Israel would pull out of the Palestinian towns.

Israeli television said the military would impose further restrictions on Palestinian towns.