Gaza City  - Israeli fighter jets fired a missile on a car driving in the northern Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and wounding five others, health officials and witnesses said.

The armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement identified the dead as two of its militants.

The airstrike near the refugee camp of Jabalia came after ongoing rockets attacks from Gaza at southern Israel, despite a ferocious and deadly 22-day Israeli offensive which ended in mid-January and aimed to curb such attacks.

Ramallah  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was to tell visiting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that talks with Israel will not be restarted unless Israel's expected right-wing government accepts previous agreements and a two-state solution, an aide to the president said Wednesday.

Clinton arrived in Ramallah Wednesday morning for her first talks as Washington's top diplomat with the Palestinian leadership.

Tel Aviv  - Israeli aircraft bombed three tunnels running under the Gaza Strip-Sinai border early Wednesday morning, an Israeli military spokeswoman said.

Secondary explosions were reported after one of the tunnels had been hit, indicating that explosives had been in it.

The tunnels are used to smuggle into the Strip goods made scarce by an Israeli blockade of the Hamas-run salient, but Israel says they are also used as a conduit to bring weapons into the enclave.

Tel Aviv  - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Israeli leaders Monday, and almost immediately paved the way for for a possible spat between the Obama administration and Israel's likely next prime minister.

Clinton lost no time in emphasizing the US commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, something Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has refrained from endorsing, although he has spoken of Palestinian self- government.

Tehran  - Iran is to hold an international conference on Palestine aimed at exposing Israeli's alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip, Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.

"Three panels at the Palestine conference will be allocated to international obligations to follow up [Israeli] war crimes and violation of human rights," Iran's prosecutor general, Ghorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi, said.

The Palestine conference will be inaugurated Wednesday by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and attended by officials from Islamic and non-Islamic countries. No further details have yet been given about the participants.

Tel Aviv  - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Israel Monday night for a 36-hour visit, during which she will hold talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

The trip, Clinton's first to Israel and the Palestinian areas as Washington's top diplomat, is a familiarization visit.

According to the Ha'aretz daily, Clinton's discussions with Israeli officials will focus on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, and on the formulation of a ceasefire agreement with the Islamic Hamas movement, which administers the Gaza Strip.