HIGHLIGHTS: 14 Palestinians Detained in Latest Occupation Army Raids in the West Bank||Pitah Tikva Bomber Had a Score to Settle||Palestinian Reshuffle 'Soon'||STORY: Israeli occupation forces swept into the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday and arrested a senior militant after a Palestinian bomber killed two Israelis at a cafe in Israel. (Read photo caption)

Israeli occupation troops backed by helicopter gunships pushed into Jenin soon after the bombing, the latest in a 20-month-old Palestinian uprising, intifadha, against occupation. A Palestinian man was killed when shooting erupted in the town center, witnesses said.

RESISTANCE LEADER CAPTURED

The occupation army said it had captured Rami Awad, a leader of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, a day after seizing the local leader of another militant movement -- the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades -- during a raid in Bethlehem.
Palestinian officials confirmed Awad's detention. The army said it had detained a total of six suspected militants in Jenin and eight more in raids in other parts of the West Bank.

Military sources said troops left Jenin before midday. It was the second time the Israeli army had swept back into Jenin since it occupied the refugee camp there last month amid the worst fighting and highest casualties of its offensive.
The occupation army said its troops did not enter the refugee camp on Tuesday.

The latest wave of bombings has shown up Israel's vulnerability, despite last month's army assault in the West Bank that aimed to uproot militant networks behind such attacks.

The Palestinian attacks and Israeli occupation army raids have clouded efforts to end the bloodshed that has cost the lives of at least 1,374 Palestinians and 482 Israelis since September 2000.

BOMBER HAD A SCORE TO SETTLE

In Beirut, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah political movement, took responsibility for Monday's attack.

A video tape received by Reuters showed Jibril Titi, the 17-year-old cousin of a militant who was killed by Israeli forces last week, making preparations for a bombing.

The video suggested he had carried out the attack to avenge the death of Mahmoud Titi, an al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader killed by tank fire in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus last Wednesday.

Israel blamed Arafat's Palestinian Authority for Monday's blast. But the Authority denied responsibility and said such "terrorist" attacks undercut the Palestinian uprising.

PALESTINIAN RESHUFFLE "SOON"

In Ramallah, Nabil Abu Rdainah, an aide to Arafat told reporters the Palestinian president would reshuffle his cabinet "very soon" as part of reforms in his Palestinian Authority and its security forces.

Arafat is under pressure from Palestinian legislators and public as well as the United States and Israel for reform and fresh voting since the last Palestinian ballot in 1996.

He promised last week to call presidential and general elections by early 2003. His cabinet said on Monday that the polls could be held by the end of this year.

Palestinian officials say it would be hard to hold free and fair elections while Israeli troops continue to raid and encircle Palestinian towns in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

PHOTO CAPTION

An Israeli armored personnel carrier passes a checkpoint at the entrance of the West Bank city of Qalqiliya May 27, 2002. Israel maintained its military grip on the West Bank city of Qalqilya and enforced a curfew in Tulkarm as its occupation army intensified raids into Palestinian-ruled areas following four Resistance bomb attacks within a week. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen