Palestinian officials are seeking ceasefire talks with resistance groups after Egyptian-brokered efforts to secure a comprehensive ceasefire stumbled. The groups agreed to halt attacks within Israel and to "spare civilians" as long as Israel reciprocated the gestures and fulfilled conditions. But Hamas, Islamic Jihad and three other Palestinian factions on Sunday rejected an Egyptian proposal that would have halted all anti-occupation attacks. But on Monday members of Palestinian President Yasir Arafat's Fatah faction said they will try to persuade resistance movements to change their stance. "The dialogue with the factions will continue inside the occupied territories and the Palestinian cabinet will pursue its peace efforts despite the collapse of the Cairo talks," said senior Fatah official Ahmed Ghneim in Egypt. The Cairo talks, which ended on Sunday, brought together 12 Palestinian factions in an effort to halt all anti-occupation attacks and build a unified stance. They were also aimed at kick-starting the US-backed "road map" trying to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya abruptly left the Cairo talks when it became clear he would not secure an absolute halt to attacks, seen as a bargaining chip during upcoming talks with his Israeli counterpart Ariel Sharon. **Concessions*** Hamas, which is spearheading the Intifada, said it was willing to halt attacks against civilians in Israel, but it would continue striking Jewish settlers and soldiers. Israel categorically rejected the offer, saying it would never agree to "half-truces". But a senior Israeli official said it was possible for the sides to observe an unspoken truce. "We are not looking for any new promises or signed documents. These don't mean anything. What counts is the test of performance," the official said. Hamas, along with four other factions, wants Israel to fulfil three conditions, including lifting crippling blockades around Palestinian cities and towns, ending raids and house demolitions in the occupied Palestinian territories and freeing all detainees being held in Israeli prisons. **Raid*** Even as Palestinians met to find a way to peace, Israel continued its invasions. Occupation forces, backed by 20 military vehicles, launched an invasion at dawn on Monday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, reported our correspondent. Fighters from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Fatah, and Islamic Jihad's al-Quds Brigades clashed with Israeli forces, who raided homes under the pretext of searching for wanted activists. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie, who is in Cairo to join truce talks held by Palestinian factions, addresses reporters after a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo on December 7, 2003. The Palestinian factions ended truce talks in Cairo with an agreement on a conditional halt to resistant attacks in Israel, but a final statement did not refer to ending attacks on soldiers and settlers in occupied land.