A Palestinian militant commander has told Israel radio that he would halt attacks against Israel if it pulls out of his West Bank city of Jenin. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader Zakaria Zubeidi said he but had no choice but to fight because of the Israeli raids. Mr Zubeidi was reportedly the target of an assassination attempt on Sunday. "I’ll have no problem stopping attacks after an Israeli retreat and when they no longer come in every day with their tanks to kill us," he said. "When they have left Jenin, there will be no more attacks against the Israelis emanating from this town."
An al-Aqsa Brigades member was reportedly injured in exchanges of gunfire around Mr Zubeidi’s home in the Jenin refugee camp on Sunday, although Israel said shots were fired during a routine patrol. Al-Aqsa Brigades, which are affiliated to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction, have mounted hundreds of attacks in Israel and the occupied territories since the start of the Palestinian uprising in 2000. Four Israeli settlements outside Jenin are due to be evacuated by the end of next year under the disengagement plan put forward by the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon.
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