More car, mortar bombs in the Middle East

JERUSALEM - Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres begins a four-day visit to the United States today after holding inconclusive talks in Egypt and Jordan on their joint plan for ending Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed.

Gun battles flared yesterday in the Gaza Strip, wounding eight Palestinians and one Israeli. Palestinians fired two mortar bombs at a Jewish settlement there, causing no casualties. A car bomb exploded near a Jewish settler school bus in the West Bank, but no one on the bus was hurt. The body of a suspected Palestinian suicide bomber was found at the scene. Police detonated another bomb in the Israeli town of Netanya.

- REUTERS

Herald Online feature: Middle East

Map

UN: Information on the Question of Palestine

Israel's Permanent Mission to the UN

Palestine's Permanent Observer Mission to the UN

Middle East Daily

Arabic News

Arabic Media Internet Network

Jerusalem Post

Israel Wire

US Department of State - Middle East Peace Process