Tel Aviv - An Israeli Arab was indicted Friday on suspicion of conspiring with an al-Qaeda agent to carry out attacks in Israel, security officials announced.

Khaled Abu Rakayek, 23, of the Bedouin village of Tel Sheva, in southern Israel, was arrested on July 29.

He is accused of trying to set up a cell which would carry out suicide bombings in Israel.

According to the indictment, he also contacted an al-Qaeda operative in the Gaza Strip to discuss possible attacks and had downloaded onto his computer videos documenting terror attacks committed by the global Jihad organization.

He also downloaded material documenting how to prepare explosive belts.

Tel Aviv - A premature baby girl who had caused shock in Israel when she suddenly showed signs of life after spending more than five hours in a morgue cooler died early Tuesday in the northern Israeli hospital were she was born, Israel Radio reported.

The gynaecologist who had helped deliver the 610-gram baby, born Monday in the fifth month of her mother's pregnancy, had mispronounced the girl stillborn because he had found no pulse.

Staff at the hospital in Nahariya near the Israel-Lebanon border then sent the baby to a cooler at the hospital's cryogenic laboratory, where she spent more than five hours, only for her mother to discover signs of life when she was taken out of the cooler shortly before her scheduled funeral.

Tel Aviv  - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak ordered the military to close crossing points into the Gaza Strip for one day on Tuesday, after Gaza-based militants fired a rocket into southern Israel Monday afternoon.

An Israeli army spokeswoman said the rocket, which landed near a kindergarten in the town of Sderot, caused neither damage nor injuries.

It marked the 40th launching of either a rocket or a mortar from the Gaza Strip since a truce between Israel and Gaza militias came into effect on June 19.

Tel Aviv  - An Israeli soldier and his commander are facing a military court for shooting a blindfolded, handcuffed Palestinian protester in the foot with a rubber-coated metal bullet, an Israeli army spokesperson said Thursday in Tel Aviv.

Both men are accused of dishonourable behaviour and a military trial will begin in the near future, the spokesman added.

Tel Aviv  - Israeli is preparing to transfer to the West Bank Palestinian Fatah activists who fled internecine fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defence Ministry said Monday.

The move comes amid fierce inter-Palestinian clashes in the Strip between Fatah and Hamas, which administers the enclave. It overturns a previous decision made at the request of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and West Bank-based acting Premier Salam Fayyad to return those fleeing to the salient.

Tel Aviv - Israeli is preparing to transfer to the West Bank Palestinian Fatah activists who fled internecine fighting in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defence Ministry said Monday.

The move comes amid fierce inter-Palestinian clashes in the Strip between Fatah and Hamas, which administers the enclave. It overturns a previous decision made at the request of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and West Bank-based acting Premier Salam Fayyad to return those fleeing to the salient.