Israelis resume air strikes

　　ISRAEL’S Supreme Court yesterday upheld the practice of demolishing homes of Palestinian terror suspects without warning, and Israeli troops killed a militiaman suspected of sending suicide bombers.In Gaza City Israeli helicopters fired three missiles at a suspected weapons factory late Monday, lightly injuring four people and damaging three buildings. Salim Bahtiti, son of the factory owner, denied the shop was used to make weapons. It was the first air strike against Gaza since July 22 when a one-ton bomb dropped by an F-16 killed 15 Palestinians, including a key Hamas military leader and nine children.Despite the ongoing violence, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer met with the Palestinian interior minister, Abdel Razak Yehiyeh, late Monday to discuss cease-fire plans that could lead to Israeli troops to leave some Palestinian areas. The Gaza Strip and several West Bank towns were mentioned as possible starting points.Also yesterday, two Palestinian militiamen were killed in a village near the West Bank town of Jenin in what witnesses said was a three-hour attack by Israeli tanks, jeeps and helicopters.One of the militiamen was accused by Israel of having dispatched two suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Tel Aviv July 17.Since the July 22 air strike, the Islamic militant group Hamas has claimed responsibility for two deadly attacks.Following the attacks, Israel said Monday it would bar Palestinian travel in much of the northern West Bank and it sent tanks to seal off the town of Rafah and a nearby refugee camp in southern Gaza.Hours after the clampdown was announced, a car exploded in northern Israel, killing one person and injuring another. Police and rescue officials said it appeared the slain passenger was a Palestinian militant en route to carrying out an attack.In the Balata neighborhood of Nablus, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy who was outside his home while the curfew was on, doctors said.In Egypt, meanwhile, President Hosni Mubarak invited Arafat and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to peace talks in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.(SD-Agencies)