Jewish settlers have seized thousands of acres of West Bank land by widening their communities’ perimeter fences or scaring Palestinian farmers off their fields through harassment, an Israeli human rights group said today.

A NEW Hamas militia battled gunmen from a Fatah-dominated security force near the Palestinian parliament in Gaza yesterday in fresh clashes that killed a Jordanian driver and wounded six bystanders.

Israel-Palestinian peace talks were put off again after a Jewish woman was killed in a shooting attack and Israel closed off a swathe of West Bank land.