AL QUDS, Nov 21: Israeli police have proposed a series of security measures for Al Quds aimed at making it harder for Palestinian militants to infiltrate into the city and carry out attacks, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

The measures include building 11 kilometres of walls and fences around the city and some adjacent areas, spokesman Gil Kleinman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. In addition, police plan to install electronic surveillance devices which will spot infiltration attempts.

It will set up mobile roadblocks in some mixed Israeli-Palestinian neighbourhoods areas where no wall or fence will be built.

Walls and fences will also be built opposite such locations as the (Israeli-named settlements of) Neve Yakov, Har Homa, Gilo and Pisgat Ze’ev, the Israeli Ma’ariv daily reported on Wednesday. Israel regards these locations as part of the Al Quds municipal boundaries, although they are built on land captured in the 1967 Middle East War.

Palestinians say they are built on land which will form part of a future Palestinian state with East Al Quds as its capital.

The plan was drafted by the police and the Israeli National Security Council, and was presented on Tuesday to the Israeli Knesset by Al Quds police chief Michael Levy.

Palestinians have repeatedly carried out attacks on Israelis in both East and West Al Quds. Gilo, located on the city’s southern outskirts, has especially come under Palestinian fire launched from the nearby town of Beit Jalla.—dpa

TWO seizeD: Israeli commandos seized a Palestinian policeman and his brother in a search for militants in a West Bank village, adding to pressures facing a new US peace mission to the Middle East.

The Palestinian Authority said the diplomatic effort unveiled on Monday by Secretary of State Colin Powell would fail if Israel stuck to its demand for a violence-free week before implementing a US-led truce-to-talks plan.

Israeli security sources said the army would hold on to its positions in the West Bank town of Jenin, one of six Palestinian-ruled areas reoccupied last month and the last to remain in Israeli hands, despite US calls for withdrawal.

They said a pullout from Jenin could take place before Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visits Washington in early December, depending on whether Israeli security needs were met.

Several earlier US-brokered ceasefire deals have failed to take root.—dpa/Reuters