Wasn't there supposed to be a truce? These are excerpts from just one article in Ha'aretz, the liberal Israeli paper.

In response to the string of deadly Palestinian attacks on Israelis, the Palestinian Interior Ministry on Monday warned Islamic Jihad and figures in the Fatah movement against a further escalation in violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Two Israelis have been killed in Palestinian attacks in the past two days.

Islamic Jihad gunmen near the northern West Bank city of Tul Karm opened fire on a car carrying two Israeli civilians in an ambush early Monday, killing the driver, identified as Yevgeny Reider, 28, from Hermesh, and lightly wounding his 15-year-old passenger. The day before, an Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed by gunmen in the southern Gaza Strip.

Later on Monday, IDF soldiers arrested a female would-be suicide bomber at the entrance to the Erez crossing on the border with the northern Gaza Strip.

Khadr Adnan, an Islamic Jihad spokesman in the West Bank, said Monday the ambush attack didn't signal the end of the group's cease-fire with Israel. "We are still committed to calm," he said. (Ed. - ?!?)

In the morning ambush, the militants fired from the sides of a road near homes in the village of Baka al-Sharkiyeh, a few hundred meters from the Green Line border of the West Bank. The victims' car was driving from the nearby settlement of Hermesh.

Following the succession of attacks by Palestinian militants on Israelis in the territories, the United States said on Monday that the PA must take immediate action against terrorist groups.

Several hours after the deadly West Bank shooting attack, IDF soldiers caught a female would-be suicide bomber at the entrance to the Erez border crossing on the edge of the Gaza Strip.

The would-be bomber, 21-year-old Wafa Samir Ibrahim, resident of the Jabalya refugee camp was dispatched by the Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades, a military offshoot of the Fatah movement, to carry out a suicide attack.

Ibrahim had been in the past to the Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva to receive medical treatment for severe burns she sustained from a gas balloon that exploded next to her six months ago. She needed to reach the hospital for medical tests.

The woman said she did not plan on carrying out the attack at the Soroka hospital but in another hospital, not specifying its name.

"There has been a very serious escalation in the number of incidents in the sector secured by the brigade, including mortar shelling, Qassam rockets and light arms fire. The [PA}, we can say, is not doing its part in preventing such incidents," Levy concluded.

Also on Monday afternoon, Border Police troops arrested a Palestinian youth who tried to stab yeshiva student in Jerusalem near their base in the city's Ma'alot Dafna neighborhood. The assailant's friend fled the scene with the knife and police were searching for him, Israel Radio reported.

Palestinian gunmen opened fire late Monday afternoon on an Israeli vehicle near the northern West Bank settlement of Paduel. There were no casualties in the attack, Israel Radio reported.

Police arrested Monday evening two Palestinian youths who threw firebombs at the Beit Orot yeshiva in Jerusalem's A-Tur neighborhood, the radio reported.

Militants hurled four more Molotov cocktails at an Israeli car driving northwest of Ramallah during the night, but no one was hurt in the incident, according to the report.

Also Monday night, Palestinian gunmen opened fire a number of times with light arms and mortar shells on IDF positions across the Gaza Strip. There were no casualties but one home was damaged by a mortar impact in northern Gaza.