Israeli forces burst into a jail in the West Bank town of Jericho today, demanding the surrender of prisoners, including the mastermind of the killing of an Israeli cabinet minister.

ISRAEL put in question peacemaking moves yesterday after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he would free a militant jailed over the killing of an Israeli minister.

Two Palestinian suicide bomb attacks in 24 hours and the arrest of a Palestinian woman Israel said was preparing an attack shows Palestinians still have the will and the means to strike, Israeli officials said.

Hezbollah has offered to release some of the Israeli prisoners it holds to win freedom for Palestinians holed up in the West Bank.

Israeli is calling for four Palestinians to be handed over to stand trial in its terrority, despite being jailed for the murder of the Israeli Tourism Minister.

APalestinian court in Yasser Arafat’s besieged West Bank compound has found four Palestinians guillty of killing the Israeli Tourism Minister.

Israel says it will only allow Yasser Arafat to attend Christmas Mass in Bethlehem if he arrests the assassins of an Israeli Cabinet minister today.

Two Palestinians have been formally charged with the killing of Israeli Tourism Minister, Rehavam Zeevi two months ago.

Israel has pulled its soldiers and tanks from two of the six Palestinian-controlled towns it invaded in retaliation for the assassination of Tourism Minister Rahavam Zeevi earlier this month.

Israel is insisting that it will hold on to six West Bank towns until its demands are met, despite stiff US criticism of her widest incursion in seven years.

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres today put pressure on Yasser Arafat to arrest 10 to 15 Palestinians on the West Bank, saying they were responsible for most of the terror Israel has suffered.

Three Palestinians were killed today as Israeli tanks moved deeper into West Bank towns, tightening their grip on biblical Bethlehem and five other towns in the widest operation against the Palestinians in years.

Six more Palestinians were killed today after tanks moved into the biblical town of Bethlehem and commandeered two hotels.

Israeli-Palestinian violence was escalating again despite US appeals for calm, with six Palestinians and one Israeli dead in a series of incidents two days after the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister.

A militia leader wanted by Israel has been killed by a car explosion.

The Palestinian Authority today said it had uncovered an Israeli plot to assassinate Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat - an accusation immediately dismissed by Israel.

Israel is demanding that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's forces arrest and hand over the Palestinians who assassinated an Israeli cabinet minister.

The Israeli Government has banned Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from using Gaza International Airport, meaning he will have to pass through Israeli checkpoints any time he tries to leave his homeland.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has claimed responsibility for the assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in Jerusalem this morning.

Israel’s tourism minister was shot dead today in an ambush at a Jerusalem hotel in what a militant Palestinian group said was its revenge for the killing of their leader by Israel.

An Israeli man was shot and wounded today in an east Jerusalem hotel, police said.

Israeli tanks moved into the West Bank town of Hebron from three directions early today, destroying Palestinian police posts during a fierce exchange of fire, witnesses said.