Israeli troops raided a Palestinian military HQ early today and arrested 18 fugitives who had sought shelter there, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.

The oldest Palestinian suicide bomber, a 64-year-old widow, lived in a one-room shack and had so many grandchildren that relatives lost track of the number, but her daughter said Fatma Omar An-Najar was driven to lay down her life in an attack on Israelis because one grandson was killed and another disabled in clashes with troops.

Alleged race hate preacher Abu Hamza denied today that he urged a “tinderbox” congregation at the Finsbury Park mosque to go out and kill.

The Israeli army demolished nine houses belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank city of Hebron, making dozens homeless.