21.   This followed new suicide attacks against Israelis, which Jerusalem blames on the Palestinian failure to crack down on militants.

22.   Two new suicides were reported Thursday, though there was no immediate attempt to link them to the Hat Yai case.

23.   Yasser Arafat told the cabinet the Palestinian Authority had uncovered Hamas plans to carry out four new suicide bomb attacks in Israel, and had foiled them all.

24.   Israel has interpreted similar statements from Arafat in the past as an incitement for militants to stage new suicide attacks.

25.   But aides said Monday that Peres has no intention of seeing new suicide attacks foil his election chances.

26.   The new suicide was reported only hours after Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama pledged efforts to root out bullying at schools during an unprecedented cabinet meeting on the issue.

27.   There was particular concern of a new suicide linked to the current phase of the lunar cycle, it said.

28.   Last week the group warned that it would carry out new suicide attacks against Israel in revenge for the Palestinian Authority crackdown.

29.   Meanwhile, a senior Palestinian security official said police had arrested a member of Islamic Jihad as he prepared a new suicide attack in Israel.

30.   Meanwhile, the Egyptian government daily Al Ahram said Israel was waiting for a new suicide attack before launching a military operation into the Gaza Strip.