Throughout the night, the city remained surprisingly quiet, except for a stone-throwing incident in Ahmedabad's old walled city, to which the police responded with tear gas.

But aside from the stone-throwing incident, he had had no serious involvement, his brother said.

Early this week Mr. Rabin announced a new "get tough" policy, expanding the rules of engagement for soldiers in the territories, to reduce the number of stone-throwing incidents.

The settlers' movement estimates that more than two-thirds of the 80,000 settlers in the West Bank and Gaza have been victims of stone-throwing incidents.

The Thornton Road Poltergeist refers to stone-throwing incidents in a residential area of Birmingham, England and the subsequent police investigation.

According to the guidelines, the Palestinian officers are supposed to deal with stone-throwing and other incidents involving Arabs while the Israeli officers handle Jews.

He said there had been threatening phone calls and stone-throwing incidents.

But as the revolt lost much of its steam and stone-throwing incidents decreased, the number of shooting attacks grew, the army said.

Paul and Tad try to gain some measure of revenge but a stone-throwing incident backfires when the police are called and the boys are arrested and cautioned.

So far this year, the Palestinians are responsible for 1,661 stone-throwing incidents and 160 firebombs, for 8 shooting incidents and 11 explosions, according to the Israelis.