Jerusalem
Palestinian attacks increased this week as the planned Israeli pullout from Gaza grew closer. The militant group Islamic Jihad carried out three attacks that killed two Israelis, and Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli motorist in the West Bank. Israelis caught a Palestinian would-be suicide bomber posing as a hospital patient as she tried to pass from Gaza to Israel. Against this violent backdrop, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met for the first time since February to discuss the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza later this summer. In the first sign of cooperation on the issue, the two agreed that the former homes of Israeli settlers should be destroyed, not occupied by Palestinians.
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