: 10.0pt"> Israeli raids in Palestinian towns continue to catch members of Palestinian terrorist organizations, or suspects. The Israelis still have a large network of informers and electronic monitoring equipment in Palestinian territory. From the vast quantities of data, the Israelis are able to identify likely participants in terrorist activities. 

Israel will no longer deal with Yasser Arafat, and is deliberately destroying his Palestinian Authority organization and demanding that Palestinians come up with another, anti-terrorism, organization before peace negotiations can resume.