Israel’s prime minister Ariel Sharon has launched a furious attack on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, accusing him of failing to contain violence, following the stoning to death of two Jewish teenagers.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has condemned the stoning to death of two boys on the West Bank.

The bodies of two 14-year-old Israeli boys believed to have been stoned to death by Palestinians were found today in a cave near Bethlehem.