Farouk al-Kaddoumi, head of the Political
Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), said on
Tuesday that the United States and Britain should take responsibility for
Israel's siege and raid of the Jericho prison.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference
(OIC) on Tuesday strongly condemned Israeli troops' attack on a
Palestinian prison after the British and U.S. monitors'
withdrawal.
The Jordanian government on Tuesday expressed grave
concern over Israel's military operation in the West Bank town of Jericho,
calling on the country to stop its raid on a Palestinian
prison.
The British government denied Tuesday
collusion with Israel in withdrawing its monitors from a West Bank prison,
sparking an Israeli raid on a Palestinian prison and then a wave of a
violence in the Gaza Strip and the West
Bank.
Ahmed Saadat, jailed leader of the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),surrendered to Israeli forces
on Tuesday, ending a day-long Israeli siege of a Palestinian
prison.