Palestine elections haven’t stopped the violence

At least five Israelis were killed and several wounded last night by a suicide bomb near an Israeli army base in the Gaza Strip. In the biggest attack since the election of the moderate Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president last Sunday, a huge bomb went off at the Karni border crossing. The army said the attack appeared to be the work of at least one suicide bomber. Rescue services said gunmen were firing mortar rounds at the site shortly after the explosion and Israeli troops exchanged fire with militants. In response an Israeli helicopter launched two missiles at a &to= english.pravda.ru/hotspots/2001/11/20/21417.html ' target=_blank>Gaza refugee camp. The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a group affiliated with Mr Abbas's Fatah faction, said one of its members was killed "in a martyrdom operation", reports the Telegraph. According to Reuters, Palestinian militants have blown up a truck bomb in an attack on the Gaza border that killed five Israelis, rescue workers and the army say, hours after the new Palestinian leader called for a halt to violence. Israeli troops killed at least three gunmen and helicopters fired missiles into a Gaza refugee camp soon after, witnesses said, in the biggest such clash since Mahmoud Abbas won a landslide victory in Sunday's election for a successor to &to= english.pravda.ru/world/20/91/366/14554_.html ' target=_blank>Yasser Arafat. Abbas has urged a ceasefire to allow the resumption of talks with Israel on reaching a peace agreement and founding a Palestinian state. But one of the factions behind the assault on the Karni border crossing was the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade -- part of his own &to= english.pravda.ru/hotspots/2001/08/27/13488.html ' target=_blank>Fatah movement .

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