An Israeli soldier was wounded predawn on Monday when Palestinian fighters hurled an explosive device at occupation troops operating near Jenin. Palestinian fighters opened fire on the troops several times during the raids. During the operation in Jenin and in a nearby village, Israeli soldiers arrested eight Islamic Jihad members. Meanwhile, an Islamic Jihad leader in the Gaza Strip said Monday that The Palestine Liberation Organization may let his group and Hamas join its ranks for the first time, Reuters reported. The PLO, the main governing body of the Palestinian people, was founded by the late Yasser Arafat in the early 1960s. In a meeting late on Sunday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to Islamic Jihad representatives participating in a meeting of the PLO executive this week to help reinforce the March 17 truce, Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed al-Hindi said. According to him, both his group and Hamas would attend the PLO session "to discuss a basis on which the PLO should be rebuilt" and said the PLO would consider a bid to let them join the organization.