1.   Arafat, initially cool to the proposal, was expected to give his final answer about attending the talks after a meeting late Friday of the Palestinian cabinet.

2.   Ahmad Abdel Rahman, the secretary of the Palestinian cabinet, called the shooting a massacre.

3.   But Hanan Ashrawi, a minister in the Palestinian cabinet, called the Israeli settlement expansion a death-knell for peace efforts.

4.   Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian cabinet, asserted on Wednesday that Netanyahu was trying to evade agreements to hand over more land to the Palestinians.

5.   His announcement came after the Palestinian cabinet decided to prohibit land sales to Israelis and to punish offenders.

6.   Saeb Erakat, a minister in the Palestinian cabinet, condemned the killing and said that Yasser Arafat, the president of the authority, had ordered an inquiry.

7.   The Palestinian cabinet, in a meeting in Gaza on Saturday, condemned the order and said that it contradicted the Hebron agreement.

8.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had called on the alleged killers to be prosecuted Friday during a meeting of the Palestinian cabinet.

9.   Amid a show of force against the Islamic militant group Hamas, the Palestinian cabinet ratified the Wye River accord on Friday, a Palestinian official said.

10.   However the Palestinian cabinet said in a statement that the meeting would involve cabinet ministers.