While Israel is preparing for implementing its unilateral Gaza disengagement plan, a suicide bombing in Netanya carried out by Palestinian militants on Tuesday and Israel's recent decision to cut of 55,000 East Jerusalem residents by the separation wall are making the Israeli-Palestinian ties more tense.

The three major confusing issues all are related, but each one contradicts with the other, said political analysts.

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Hague court ruling that considered the separation wall Israel has constructed in the West Bank as illegal and called on Israel to demolish it, the Netanya bombing has been considered as a result of Israeli refusal to implement the court ruling.

The Israeli government has recently decided that by September it would finalize the construction of the wall around Jerusalem, because of which 55,000 residents would be out of the holy city.

Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei denounced the Israeli decision, saying that the PNA will resort to the UN General Assembly to prevent Israel from continuing building the separation wall, mainly around Jerusalem.

Qurei told reporters that the fact that Israel continues building the wall in Jerusalem "is blatant defiance to the world and we will resort the (UN) General assembly and the Security Council on this issue."

Qurei added that the PNA will call for an urgent meeting of Arab and Islamic premiers to discuss ways to face the Israeli settlements and the separation wall around Jerusalem particularly.

The international community has complete responsibility for the Israeli unilateral practices and its attacks and its violations of the international law, he urged.

Political observers held that the suicide bombing attack that was carried out on Tuesday in the costal Israeli city of Netanya looks like a reaction to the Israeli policy of continuing the construction of separation wall and targeting militants in the West Bank and Gaza.

Two Israelis were killed and at least 25 others injured, six in serious conditions, as the suicide bomber blew himself up at a commercial center not far from the beachside of the coastal city of Netanya.

The suicide bomber who carried out the attack was recognized as Ahmed Sami Abu Khalil, 18, known as an Islamic Jihad activist in the city of Tulkarem.

The Jihad movement has claimed responsibility for the Netanya bombing, saying that Israel had never stopped targeting Jihad members over the last few weeks, mainly in the West Bank cities of Jenin, Tulkarem and Hebron, and more than 300 of its members and leaders were arrested.

The group said it had warned several times that the Israeli actions or arrests and raiding cities and towns in the West Bank would threat a de-facto truce with Israel agreed by Jihad and other Palestinian factions to collapse.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas convened with different factions in Cairo, Egypt, in March and reached an agreement to go for a one-year truce with Israel, while conditioned with an Israeli stop to all its actions of raids and arrests.

Khaled al-Batsh, a senior Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, said that the Netanya bombing attack is "a natural reaction to the daily Israeli violation of the status of calmness, or Hudna."

"Since the status of calmness was announced and accepted, Israel has not stopped at all its daily violations for a reason or without a reason," he denounced.

"Whoever the party or the group responsible for the (Netanya) attack, we consider it a natural outcome to what the occupation is carrying out of violations to the status of calmness," stressed al- Batsh, adding "calmness for calmness and violations response to violations."

He noted that when the factions noticed that the Hudna is threatened to collapse due to the current ongoing Israeli daily violations, "the Islamic Jihad called for an urgent meeting few weeks ago to evaluate the Hudna."

"We addressed letters to the Egyptian sponsors of the dialogue clarifying that the Israeli violations would badly damage the Hudna," he added.

The Jihad leader, however, expressed that "our movement is still committed to the truce."

As the two issues, the construction of the separation wall and the militants decision to renew attacks inside Israel are getting up on the surface of the current situation, there are concerns that they would negatively influence the implementation of the disengagement plan.

Palestinian and Israeli security officials express concern over the continuation of armed attacks and rockets firing during the Israeli evacuation of settlements from Gaza and part of the West Bank in mid August.

Israel is apparently not intending to stop chasing militants in the West Bank, storming towns and villages and arresting dozens, in which these groups would consider it as a violation to the truce.

However, the Israeli army has threatened that if the militants carry out attacks during the withdrawal and evacuation of settlements, it would carry out painful strikes on militants in the Gaza Strip.

Abbas has also strongly condemned the Netanya bombing attack Tuesday, saying "we consider this a terrorist operation, a crime against the Palestinian people."

He told reporters in Ramallah Wednesday that "no sensible person could do such a thing on the eve of the (Israeli) pullout from Gaza and northern West Bank."

Meanwhile, he accused that the Israeli government's decision to expedite construction works in the apartheid separation wall gives us signs and impression that it does not want to achieve a real peace.

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior said in a statement that it severely condemned militants' attacks that target Israeli and Palestinian civilians and "all the needed measures would be taken against those behind the suicide bombing attack in Netanya.

"The Palestinian security forces would investigate the incident, although most of the West Bank is still under the full Israeli security control." said the statement.

Israel decided Wednesday to directly target the Islamic Jihad leaders and members, which means that it would get back to implementing its policy of targeted killings.

Israel at the same time closed the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, suspended the transfer of security to the Palestinians in the City of Bethlehem and halted the security coordination talks with the Palestinians over the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and northern West Bank.

People worried that if the targeted killings resume the Hudna or truce would collapse.

What would happen if Israel assassinates Jihad leaders and continues with the separation wall construction, and is Israel going to implement the disengagement plan unilaterally by force or in coordination with the Palestinians if the truce collapses, people asked.

Source: Xinhua