JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Palestinian Resistance men opened fire on a bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, injuring 16 people. Occupation troops shot and killed one attacker.
The surviving attackers escaped into a large dry riverbed headed toward Ramot Alon, a large Jewish neighborhood in Arab section of Jerusalem.
16 people were evacuated from the scene, four of them with serious injuries.
The area of the shooting was the French Hill section of Jerusalem, which is near several Palestinian villages and neighborhoods.
It came as Israeli officials said they planned to withdraw imminently from a West Bank town, Qalqilya, after a two-week incursion to round up Palestinian militants.
Dore Gold, an adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said the withdrawal would now have to be reassessed.
Earlier, Israeli helicopters launched rocket attacks on Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip.
Israel claimed that the attacks were aimed at three buildings which made mortars to be fired into Jewish settlements. (Read photo caption below)
Israel radio said Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told a cabinet meeting on Sunday that the attacks were in retaliation for a recent increase in mortar attacks.
Palestinian witnesses denied mortar shells were made at the factory. They said the real products were machines for cutting wood and marble.
There were no reports of casualties

PHOTO CAPTION:
A Palestinian policeman inspects inside of the missile damaged factory in Jabaliya, northern Gaza strip, early Sunday Nov. 4, 2001. Israeli occupation army forces, launched six surface-to-surface missiles from their locations inside Israel to the northeast of Gaza City. The Israeli occupation army demolished the three Palestinian factories suspected of producing mortar shells in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in response to what military officials said was the firing of 30 shells at Israeli settlements in the area. Palestinians say the factories produce machines for cutting wood and marble(AP Photo/Adel Hana)
- Nov 04 2:20 AM ET