are collective punishment that harm the innocent; Israel maintains they are necessary for security. During the current conflict, more than 80 Palestinian suicide bombers have killed more than 300 Israelis.

In Monday's violence, a Palestinian fugitive, Imad Mabruk, jumped from the roof of his home in the al-Ain refugee camp near Nablus to the roof of a nearby building to escape soldiers who called on him to surrender, said his cousin, Yousef Mabruk.

Mabruk hid on the roof for several hours and at about 5 a.m. gunshots were heard. Shortly after the soldiers left, the family found Mabruk's body, riddled with gunshot wounds, on the roof, Yousef Mabruk said.

Imad Mabruk was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a radical PLO faction.

Israeli military officials confirmed thatMabruk was unarmed, but said he presented a danger to soldiers because he was a senior fugitive and could have been heavily armed. He was shot and killed while trying to escape, the officials said.

Also in the West Bank, troops arrested a Palestinian who the army said was planning to carry out a suicide attack in Israel. A suitcase with 44 pounds of explosives was found in a hotel in the town of Ramallah where the accused bomber was hiding, the army said.

In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces stationed near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim shot and killed a Palestinian carrying an assault rifle and hand grenades, the army said.