Egyptian Foreign Minister AhmedAbul Gheit on
Tuesday denounced an Israeli raid on a Palestinian prison in the West Bank
town of Jericho, the official MENA newsagency reported.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on
Tuesday announced a suspension of talks with Palestinian parties in the
parliament over the formation of a new cabinet in order to follow up an
Israeli military raid on a West Bank prison which holds top militants.
Israeli Minister of Public Security Gideon
Ezra said on Tuesday that the decision to conducta raid on a Jericho
prison was made by Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister
Shaul Mofaz.
A leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas) called upon Palestinians on Tuesday to stage protest at a West
Bank prison raided by Israeli soldiers, the pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV
reported.
Ahmed Saadat, jailed leader of the leftist
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), vowed on Tuesday not
to surrender to Israeli troops who stormed into a prison in the West Bank
town of Jericho in an effort to arrest
him.