An explosion in a car in Gaza City today killed the top commander of the Islamic Jihad’s military wing in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Interior Ministry said.

Thousands of police fanned out across northern Israel and Jerusalem today to prevent possible rioting as a grieving and angry Arab community prepared to bury four Israeli Arabs gunned down by a Jewish soldier opposed to Israel’s impending pullout from the Gaza Strip.

A JEWISH extremist opened fire inside a bus yesterday, killing four Israeli Arabs before being slain by an angry crowd, police said.

Palestinian militants linked to presidential front runner Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement claimed responsibility for ambushing Israeli civilians today