Violence could hit EU aid to Palestinians

THE European Commission has warned that it could find it very difficult to disperse aid in Palestine if its offices continued to be attacked and personnel were in danger.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that six Palestinians grabbed from a West Bank prison will be charged and tried by Israel, despite Palestinian claims that the arrests were illegal.

Israel says five of the men seized in the day-long raid in Jericho on Tuesday were involved in the 2001 assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Zeevi. The sixth is the suspected financier of an illegal weapons shipment several years ago.