ISRAEL - Oct 25 - Suicide Bomber Kills Five.

An Islamic Jihad suicide bomber kills five people at a market in the coastal town of Hadera, two days after the Palestinian group's West Bank commander was shot dead in an Israeli army raid. It was the first such attack inside Israeli since Aug 28 and since Israel withdrew settlers and soldiers from the Gaza Strip the following month. Islamic Jihad threatened retaliation after an undercover unit killed Luay Sa'adi, its West Bank military commander, and Majed Askar, another militant, in an operation in Tulkarem, about 12 miles south-east of Hadera. The army said the two men were responsible for the deaths of at least 10 Israelis. The bombing followed tension on the border between Israel and Gaza, as the army shelled militant targets in response to Islamic Jihad rocket attacks from the territory. Islamic Jihad and other militant groups agreed to abide by a period of calm at the start of this year but reserved the right to retaliate against what they considered Israeli aggression. PA Pres Mahmoud Abbas, in a statement delivered hours before Oct 26 bombing, condemned this selective strategy and said: No one has the right to respond here and there, unilaterally". Addressing the Palestinian cabinet, he said: The occupation is criminal but we cannot give Israel excuses to attack us". Abbas, who last week held talks in Washington with Pres Bush, is under strong US and Israeli pressure to crack down on militants, but has so far resisted demands to disarm them by force. This year there has been a marked reduction in attacks inside Israel that Palestinian officials say is a consequence of the truce by militants. Israeli officials say security forces continue to receive warnings of planned attacks and that the relative calm is thanks to the security barrier that now encloses most of the West Bank. Hadera, where Israel's coastal strip is at its narrowest, was a frequent target of attacks earlier in the Palestinian uprising that began five years ago.