PALESTINIAN militiamen said yesterday they would renew their attacks in Israel to avenge two leaders killed in a mysterious West Bank explosion — even as Yasser Arafat’s deputy said the armed uprising was a mistake and must be halted.

Israeli forces have swept into a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern West Bank early on Tuesday, according to Palestinian security officials.

ISRAELI troops demolished three houses of Palestinian terror suspects yesterday, while Jewish settler leaders inaugurated a new Jewish settlement near the Palestinian city of Nablus.

A suicide bomber's mother says she wished her son luck shortly before he killed an Israeli toddler and her grandmother.

The first direct negotiations to end the three-week stalemate in Bethlehem have ended without agreement.