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Israel to strike against Palestinian 'terrorists'

INTERNET, Jerusalem
Israel's security cabinet have flashed a green light for more military operations against "terrorist targets" after a Palestinian suicide bombing that threatened to derail new Middle East peace efforts.
Complicating the picture, a new obstacle blocked a deal to end the five-week-old armed standoff at Bethlehem's Nativity Church, traditional birthplace of Jesus.
The security cabinet decision on Thursday to respond to Tuesday's suicide bombing at a billiard parlour made it likely Israel would embark on a tough offensive, this time probably in the Gaza Strip, the suspected launching pad of the attack.
At least 15 people were killed as well as the Palestinian suicide bomber and 60 were wounded in the explosion at the packed billiard hall in Rishon Letzion south of Tel Aviv.
Palestinians in Gaza braced for an Israeli armed assault after Israeli media reported that the suicide
bomber was believed to have come from the Mediterranean territory.
Palestinian police in Gaza arrested 14 members of the Islamic militant group Hamas on Thursday after President Yasser Arafat, under U.S. and Israeli pressure to curb violence, ordered measures to foil attacks on Israeli civilians.
The Palestinian Authority condemned Tuesday's attack but Israel said, as before, that it held Arafat responsible. It was believed to be the first arrests of militants by Palestinian police since March 29. Israeli forces arrested hundreds.
For its part Hamas neither confirmed or denied media reports that it staged the Rishon Letzion attack.
An Israeli government statement gave no details of what military operations had been approved but said the security cabinet had empowered Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer to decide what action to take.
"The security cabinet authorised the prime minister
and defence minister to decide upon operations against terrorist targets," a government statement said.
Sharon convened his security cabinet, grouping top ministers including the defence and foreign ministers, after cutting short a U.S. visit to fly home to handle the situation.
BETHLEHEM SNAG
In Bethlehem, barriers removed in preparation for the evacuation of the Nativity church were reinstalled and a military crane was brought back to Manger Square as the sides met to iron out the latest glitch in the deal.
Under the deal, 26 Palestinian militants and all civilians were to leave the shrine while 13 wanted militants slated for exile would remain until a country agreed to host them.
But one of the 13 militants said the group would reject the accord unless guarantees were provided to ensure a European Union envoy stayed in the church to safeguard them from Israeli troops.
"If this guarantee is not given we will reject the agreement and nobody will leave the church," one of the militants said.
"This morning, again and again after the agreement was reached, people inside blocked the implementation by making more requests, more demands," said Olivier Rafowicz of the Israeli army which continued to ring the site holy to Christians.
"It really seems like they are
trying to block implementation of the agreement," the spokesman said in Bethlehem.
The deal would open the way for a troop withdrawal from Bethlehem, the last major West Bank town occupied by Israeli forces in an offensive launched on March 29 after more than 100 people were killed in a wave of suicide bombings.
The 13 men on Israel's most-wanted list were to stay in the church for the time being but would then be sent to another country, possibly Spain or Italy, which had blocked the accord earlier in the week by refusing to take the militants.
The army confirmed the deal, adding that the 39 militants had also signed pledges to renounce "terrorism".
The militants burst into the church to hide from Israeli troops when they reoccupied Bethlehem on April 2 during the West Bank offensive. Israel suspects some of them plotted two suicide bombings in Jerusalem in March, which killed 12 people.
The latest violence could set back hopes of getting Arafat and Sharon to a U.S.-proposed conference on peacemaking this summer. Turkey said it wanted to host such a gathering.
The attack raised the death toll to at least 473 Israelis and 1,345 Palestinians killed since a 19-month-old Palestinian uprising against occupation began after peace talks stalled