A Palestinian militant was killed when his estate car, packed with explosives, blew up in a West Bank refugee camp today, security officials said.

Israeli helicopters attacked a suspected Hamas weapons workshop in Gaza City early today and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called off a summit with his Palestinian counterpart – a first response to a double suicide bombing that killed 10 Israelis in a heavily guarded Israeli seaport.

At least nine Palestinians were killed when fighting erupted as Israeli troops raided two Gaza refugee camps early today.

PALESTINIANS urged the World Court yesterday to declare Israel’s ‘Berlin Wall’ illegal, arguing it would wreck the chances of a peaceful settlement in the Middle East.

Israeli troops today killed an armed Palestinian as he tried to flee and blew up two houses of suspected militants in a nearby West Bank village, the military said.

MASKED Palestinian gunmen killed two men suspected of being informers for Israel, then displayed their bodies in the central square of a West Bank refugee camp, witnesses and Palestinian security officials said.

Palestinian militants beat and abducted the Palestinian governor of the West Bank town of Jenin as he drove through the city centre today, eyewitnesses and security sources said.

As the Israeli and Palestinian prime minister prepared to meet to discuss their next peace moves, Israeli army trucks were removing equipment from a military base near Bethlehem today.

A Romanian truck driver was shot dead in the West Bank today in the first violent incident since Palestinian militants pledged to halt their attacks.

Terror group Hamas is expected to agree to a truce with Israel, perhaps even by the end of the day, Palestinian officials said.

Three Palestinians disguised as Israeli soldiers sneaked into an army post today, gunning down four Israelis before they themselves were killed by troops - the first deadly attack since last week’s Middle East summit.

THE new Palestinian government will first try persuasion rather than force to subdue militant groups, a senior Palestinian official yesterday told a US envoy preparing the ground for a Mideast peace plan.

Israeli troops today captured two Palestinian militants responsible for last week’s suicide bombing at a train station near Tel Aviv.

A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up outside a train station in central Israel early today, killing himself and a security guard and injuring 10 bystanders.

Palestinian gunmen today killed two Israeli soldiers in an attack on an army post in the West Bank, while an Israeli helicopter firing machine guns killed two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The leader of Hamas told 30,000 supporters today that the Islamic militant group will keep carrying out bombings and shootings in Israel, despite talks with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction on suspending such attacks.

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire today in a Jewish settlement, wounding two Thai workers and an Israeli, radio reports said.

IN an election-day attack, two Palestinian gunmen opened fire yesterday at a Likud Party office and at passengers in a nearby bus terminal in the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean. Five Israelis were killed and dozens wounded in the attack.

Five Israelis were killed and dozens wounded in the north Israel town of Beit Shean.

Israeli troops seized suspected Palestinian weapons-makers in the deepest incursion into Gaza City in two years today and surrounded the West Bank hideout of the alleged mastermind of a shooting attack on a kibbutz.

IN THE biggest sweep of its kind for months, Israeli troops hunting for militants stormed dozens of homes in this Palestinian city yesterday, ordering residents to line up in the dawn chill as tanks blocked roads and helicopters hovered above.

In the biggest sweep in months, Israeli troops hunting for militants stormed dozens of homes in the West Bank town of Nablus today, ordering Palestinians to line up in the dawn chill as tanks blocked roads and helicopters hovered above.

The Israeli army is searching for a Palestinian teenager they fear has been recruited to carry out a suicide attack.

Yoav Appel, Tel Aviv

First reports say the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, a militia linked to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, have claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Jerusalem.

Two Palestinian militia leaders were killed in fighting in the West Bank today, including the suspected mastermind of last week’s Passover suicide bombing that killed 26 people and triggered Israel’s military offensive.

Ariel Sharon was under increasing international pressure tonight to call off his West Bank siege of Yasser Arafat even as the Israeli army stepped up its campaign.

A round of Mideast truce talks ended without a deal tonight, only hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated his deadly package at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank, killing himself and wounding an officer.

As Mideast truce talks resumed today, a Palestinian suicide bomber detonated his deadly package at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank, killing himself and wounding an officer.