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However, it was not clear how much support, if any, the plan would generate. Mr. Peres, a leading dove, said in a radio interview on Sunday that he is trying to get the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, and the international community to support the proposal. Mr. Sharon has accepted a Palestinian state in principle but says it can only be established after a long interim process that would last years, possibly even a decade or more. His Likud party last week adopted a resolution ruling out a Palestinian state altogether. Under the plan set out by Mr. Peres, the Palestinian Authorities' separate security forces would be centralised into one unified command. It would be followed by a Palestinian state established in areas the Palestinians currently control, a process that could occur within weeks. The agreements would be implemented over a second year. The plan seems unlikely to garner support in Likud. Meanwhile, in the latest violence, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives on Sunday in a fruit and vegetable market in the coastal city of Netanya, killing one and injuring at least 28 people, Israeli officials said. Israel's rescue service said that six of the injured were in a serious condition. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. In other incidents, Palestinian gunmen opened fire on Sunday on a convoy of Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said. During an ensuing gun battle, four soldiers were lightly wounded.
Hamas' offer
The militant Palestinian group Hamas has said it was ready to stop attacks on Israeli civilians if Israel ceased its attacks on Palestinians civilians. The spiritual leader of the Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, told the Saudi newspaper Al Jazira that Hamas' military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, attacks Israeli civilians ``in response to the death of Palestinian civilians at the hands of Israeli soldiers''. ``We are the first to reject the killing of civilians, and we decided to abide by this policy, but the Israeli forces committed massacres against our people in Jenin and other areas, and this is what made us respond with the same method,'' he said.
E.U. accord on exiles
The European Union has agreed on how to share out the 13 Palestinian exiles who are temporarily staying in Cyprus, the Spanish presidency of the European Union said today. The Spanish Foreign Ministry said three would be taken in by Spain, three by Italy, two by Greece, two by Ireland, one by Portugal and one by Finland, while one would remain in Cyprus. The E.U. had been stalled over a decision on the militants, expelled after a 38-day siege at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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