Deadly clashes continued to plague the West Bank and Gaza Strip as Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas prepared to meet his Israeli counterpart, Ariel Sharon, to discuss a peace plan ahead of a three-way summit next week with US President George W. Bush. Israeli troops shot dead a member from the Hamas group during a raid into the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis, Palestinian security sources said. Relatives said the 24-year-old had been wounded and was being carried to his house when Israeli soldiers intervened and shot him dead in a nearby street. The Israeli army said 29 people were arrested in the Khan Yunis sweep and moments later, Palestinians from the armed wing of the were touring the city and calling over loudspeakers for bloody revenge. Earlier, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, a gunman belonging to Islamic Jihad was shot dead by Israeli troops, the group's local leader and Palestinian medical sources told AFP. The army said it sent in some 20 tanks and armored personnel carriers to dismantle the infrastructure of cells suspected of preparing anti-Israeli attacks and arrested nine Palestinians. Jenin Mayor Walid Abu Mueiss issued a statement urging "human rights and international organizations to come to Jenin at once to uncover and expose the crimes perpetrated by the Israeli army." He accused the army of damaging homes and shops, and mistreating women and children during the raid. Troops also moved into the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, and blew up four houses, damaging another 20, Palestinian security sources said. Palestinian homes along the border with Egypt are demolished almost daily, as the Israeli army is erecting a wall that cuts right through the heart of the divided city. Also setting a tense backdrop for the Abbas-Sharon peace talks, Jewish settlers have showed their opposition to the roadmap by setting up two new wildcat outposts in the southern West Bank, Israeli public radio reported. These outposts are even forbidden under Israeli law, and whether they are dismantled will be seen as a test for Sharon's willingness to implement the roadmap. The internationally drafted document calls for a halt to settlement activity and the dismantling of the more than 60 outposts set up on West Bank hilltops since Sharon came to power in March 2001. The blueprint, published a month ago and reluctantly accepted by the Israeli cabinet on Sunday, paves the way for the creation of a Palestinian state by 2005 but demands an end to attacks by radical Palestinian groups. In an interview with Israel's top-selling daily Yediot Aharonot, Abbas said he was convinced he could reach a truce with Hamas by next week, when he is due to join Sharon and US President George W. Bush in a three-way summit in Jordan. "I believe that next week I will reach a ceasefire agreement with Hamas," he told the newspaper. "Hamas will undertake to stop terrorism both inside the Green Line and in the territories," Abbas said. "In the wake of the agreement with Hamas I hope also to reach an agreement with the Tanzim and Islamic Jihad, but we have not had a chance to meet yet." The word Tanzim refers to armed groups linked to Fatah, the party founded in the late 1950s by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Abbas, and the most important of which is the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The Green Line is the line separating Israel from the West Bank. Hamas' military wing has carried out the bulk of recent bomb attacks inside Israel, but says it would accept a truce if Israel halts its military operations in the Palestinian territories. The group said Thursday a ceasefire was being discussed "at the highest level" but that a decision had not yet been reached. The Haaretz newspaper quoted Israeli government sources as saying Sharon was expected to offer Abbas gradual control of reoccupied Palestinian towns during Thursday's meeting. With two days left before its first phase expires, the roadmap has had no impact on the ground, and Bush's personal involvement in the process next week is expected to boost the plan's prospects. Bush is due to meet the Israeli and Palestinian premiers in the Red Sea resort of Aqaba on June 4, a day after an initial summit with Arab leaders in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. "Bush's personal entry into Middle East politics is a much-needed opportunity to find a lasting solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict," Palestinian information minister Nabil Amr told AFP. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Palestian boys run from shootings in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)