JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & Agencies)-The United States and European Union are trying to build on Israel's withdrawal from Beit Jala to start new dialogue between the Israelis and the Palestinians, despite ongoing intifadha confrontations.But just a day after Israel ended an incursion into the town, the Israeli army reportedly entered two Palestinian areas of the Predominantly West Bank city of Hebron.
The latest incursion came amid reports that both sides were preparing an agenda for a possible meeting between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.
Italian Foreign Ministry have told correspondents that the two might meet informally next week in Cernobbio, near Milan.
Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero, who visited the Middle East last week, found Mr Peres and Mr Arafat willing to talk "based on well-prepared meetings" to be held soon, a foreign ministry statement said.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will also visit the Middle East and meet with the region's leaders on Sunday.
And in Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the US was encouraged by the Beit Jala understanding and hoped it would lead to security co-operation.
Attending the UN conference on racism in Durban, Mr Arafat said, "We are trying our best" to arrange a ceasefire.
Meanwhile one of Arafat's lieutenants in the West Bank indicated that Mr Arafat had been the guiding force of the Palestinian intifada.
"I think that President Arafat is not only supporting the uprising, but also the leader of it," Marwan Barghouti, a leader of Mr Arafat's Fatah movement, reportedly told Israel's Channel 2.
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At least 10 Palestinians were wounded in on-going clashes with Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Friday, a day after three Palestinians and an Israeli were killed.(Read photo caption)

A Palestinian doctor was shot dead in an exchange of fire between Israeli tanks and Palestinian Resistance men in Hebron and another Palestinian was killed by Israeli troops in Tulkarm, north of Hebron.Late on Thursday one of Mr Arafat's elite Force 17 guards was killed by Israeli tank fire in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said.
In the West Bank town of Ramallah, an explosion damaged the home of Abu Laila, a senior figure in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). He was not present at the time of the blast.
Earlier, an Israeli man was shot dead by a masked Resistance man at a restaurant in the village of Nahalin near Ramallah.
PHOTO CAPTION:
Palestinian boy plays in the rubble of his destroyed home at Rafah camp in the Gaza Strip August 31, 2001. The end of Israel's reoccupation of a West Bank town appears to have set the stage for possible truce talks between Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)