Israel linked the Islamic Jihad militant group, which claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing last week, to a failed attempt to blow up a car crammed with half a ton of explosives yesterday.

A Palestinian teenager approached a crowded West Bank checkpoint wearing a suicide bomb vest today in what Israel said was an attempt to kill soldiers.

Israel’s Supreme Court today ordered the government to suspend work for one week on a section of the West Bank separation barrier around eight Palestinian villages north-west of Jerusalem, an attorney said.

A SUICIDE attacker detonated explosives at the entrance to a crowded mall in northern Israel yesterday, killing at least three shoppers and wounding 47, the latest in a series of bombings that have derailed US peace efforts.

At least four people died today when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a shopping centre in northern Israel, Army Radio said.

A loud explosion reported in a shopping centre in northern Israeli town of Afula, police said.

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.

Police in northern Israel today safely detonated a bomb they believe was planted by Palestinian militants in a petrol station.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank today, injuring two people, police said.

George Bush says Yasser Arafat has to do a better job of curbing violence against Israel.

George Bush says Yasser Arafat has to do a better job of curbing violence against Israel.

At least four Israelis have died in two separate attacks by Palestinian militants inside Israel this morning.

A suicide bomber blew himself up today in a bus as it reached the main bus station in the central Israeli town of Afula, police said.

A US peace envoy today said violence between Israelis and Palestinians will not deter him from his mission, and that he will stay in the region ‘‘as long as it takes’’.

Palestinian gunmen have killed one person and injured nine more in a shooting near a bus station in the northern Israeli town of Afula.

Israeli tanks have entered Palestinian-controlled territory in the West Bank.

A suspected Palestinian militant disguised as an Israeli soldier has killed three and wounded 10 people in the Israeli town of Afula before being shot dead himself.

Israel has hit back after the suicide bomb that killed two Israeli soldiers, shelling Palestinian posts and further undermining the US-sponsored ceasefire.

Police leaped on a Palestinian suicide bomber today and grabbed a bag packed with explosives and nails from him as he tried to detonate it in a busy Israeli town.