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Hamas will freeze attacks until July; Israel buries dead
The Associated Press
Militants to halt bombings
Stepping up their offensive against the militants, soldiers raided a West Bank village, herling all the men into the main square for questioning. Prime Minister Simon Peres vowed to imprison relatives of the suicide bombers without trial.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli troops blockaded more than 1 million Palestinians inside the West Bank yesterday and sealed the homes of Islamic militants whose bombing war has terrorized Israel and shaken the peace process.
In an about-face, the military wing of Hamas said it would heed a call from the group's political leaders to halt the bombing attacks until July. The wing, Izzedine al Qassam, claimed responsibility for four bombings in nine days that killed four bombers and 57 other people.
Thousands of troops set up roadblocks yesterday around 465 West Bank communities — most of them nominally autonomous under the Israel-PLO agreements — confining about 1.2 million Palestinian residents to their home towns.
Israeli soldiers sealed the homes of 10 suspected Hamas members. Troops also welded shut the metal doors and windows of the houses of three of the four suicide bombers.
"We will not be responsible from now on for such attacks inside the Zionist entity," it said in a pamphlet.
In the West Bank village of Burka, soldiers forced all males older than 15 into the main square and made
Suicide bomber How a suicide bomber typically hides explosives on his body:
Angry Israelis buried the 13 victims of the latest attack, killed Monday when an Islamic militant blew himself up outside Tel Aviv's main shopping mall. Half the dead were children.
The bombings have forced Israel's beaglered government, its popularity plunging ahead of May 29 elections, to abandon its defensive policy toward such attacks.
SOURCE: Danish Army
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Israel did not re-enter the seven West Bank towns now fully under PLO control. Under the Israel-PLO accords, Palestinian police patrol the rural areas the Israeli soldiers entered yesterday, but Israel retains overall control.
them sit on the ground as the army questioned them one by one.
The army's actions threatened to discredit Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the peace plan.
"This goes completely against the agreement," Arafat said of the blockades.
Israel's top commander in the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Ilan Biran, said Israel had arrested 102 suspected militants and planned to shut down West Bank academic institutions and community centers it considered breeding grounds for terrorism.
Peres also announced that Israel would not withdraw its troops from
the West Bank town of Hebron until the PLO amended its covenant to revoke calls for Israel's destruction. The pullout was to have occurred this month.
Israeli President Ezer Weizman called for a major strike against Hamas.
"In war, you attack." he said.
Yossi Beilin, the Cabinet minister responsible for coordinating the peace process, insisted the agreements must be preserved.
"We have to go together. I don't see any alternative to this process," he said.
The group has offered truces before, only to see offshoots carry out attacks. And the truce will hold only if Israel does not crack down on Hamas for its bombing war.
Hamas' military wing said it would honor its political leaders' appeal and stop its suicide bombings in Israel until early July.
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