Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres will meet tomorrow morning to begin plans for a formal ceasefire and a possible resumption of peace talks.

Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships entered the West Bank town of Jenin and two nearby Palestinian villages today.

Israel today began burying the teenagers killed in a suicide bomb attack at a disco as leaders in the Middle East struggled to uphold a fragile ceasefire.

Israeli tanks and army bulldozers have entered a Palestinian-controlled area of the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border.

Israeli and Palestinian officials have confirmed they are to resume high-level peace talks.