21.   Israeli troops conducted house-to-house searches for militants in Jenin, a bastion of Palestinian radicals and the scene of fierce fighting in April in the local refugee camp.

22.   Israel has imposed various travel and trade restrictions on the Palestinian territories for the past nine months following a spate of suicide bombings in Israel by Palestinian Islamic radicals.

23.   Israel has regularly accused Tehran of supporting Islamic militant violence against the Jewish state both by Palestinian radicals and Lebanese guerrillas.

24.   Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai decided Thursday to maintain a security seal imposed on the West Bank and Gaza Strip to prevent attacks by Palestinian Islamic radicals.

25.   Israel sealed the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the suicide bombings by Palestinian radicals opposed to the peace process.

26.   A suicide bus bombing in central Jerusalem on Sunday was the third deadly anti-Israeli attack by the Palestinian radical group HAMAS in a week.

27.   A suspected Palestinian radical blew himself up near Jerusalem early Thursday while preparing a suicide bombing against an Israeli target, police officials said.

28.   Arafat however also reiterated past allegations that Israeli extremists were involved in the attacks, working hand-in-hand with Palestinian radicals to sabotage peace.

29.   Arafat, who in the past has condemned anti-Jewish attacks by Palestinian radicals inside Israel, refused to comment on the latest killings Thursday.

30.   Arafat earlier condemned the delay, which had been widely expected in the wake of four suicide bombings by Palestinian radicals.