Panic in Israel - Hamas vows new assaults

Israeli eyewitnesses said July 31 that hundreds of police troops and honor guards had spread out in Tel Aviv streets and suburbs. Hamas claims assaults will be launched inside Israel next Sunday unless Hamas founder and leader Shiekh Ahmed Yassin is released.

"Barracks are being set up around all gates to the self-rule areas of the Palestinian Authority (PA)," Israeli Radio said.

Political and economic resolutions had been implemented against the Palestinians by the Israeli cabinet who met later on July 30 to punish the PA and to prevent the extremists from carrying out their savage assaults against Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the American congress and Europe to halt all the grants to extremist groups which threatened Israeli.

The preliminary investigation asserts that the two young Palestinians who directed the market bombing were disguised and carryied a two suitcases, each containing 10 K.G of T.N.T in addition to a huge quantity of nails and metallic materials to assure a large number of victims.

Israeli police sources said also that the two Palestinians are affiliated with the Hamas group and probably financed by some outside source from Jordan resident or Palestinian leader Moussa Abou Marzouk of Hamas.