HAMAS leaders are "marked for death" and won't have a moment's rest, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned yesterday, after Israel failed in an attempt to kill the top echelon of Hamas with a 550-pound bomb dropped on a Gaza City apartment. Israel also closed the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin and 10 other people were wounded today after Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a house in Gaza City.

The main Palestinian terror groups called off their eight-week-old ceasefire today after a Hamas leader was killed in an Israeli missile attack.

TWO Palestinian teenagers blew themselves up in twin attacks on a supermarket near Tel Aviv and a Jewish settlement in the West Bank yesterday, killing two Israelis.

THE Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, has arranged a meeting with Hamas, his first since taking office a month ago, to persuade the Islamic militant group to stop attacks on Israelis, officials said yesterday.