If the hudna collapses, we shall resume fighting.”Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, accused Mr Ghanam recently of plotting to send two female suicide bombers into an Israeli city while the ceasefire was in force.The transfer to Jericho was proposed by Shaul Mofaz, Israel’s Defence Minister, in talks with Mohammed Dahlan, the Palestinian security chief. The men would have been granted safe passage and housed in a Palestinian prison under British and US supervision.Raanan Gissin, the Israeli Prime Minister’s spokesman, said: “The Palestinian Authority was supposed to put them behind bars If this condition is not met, there is no deal. They have to pay for their crimes.”Israeli ministers were meeting yesterday to discuss an expanded list of prisoners to be released soon, but Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement, announced that, in the face of continued Israeli “violations,” it would consider suspending the ceasefire.• Israel will start freeing the first batch of 443 Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday as part of the &quot:road-map&quot: peace plan, Israel Radio reported.. A leading executive of South Korea’s troubled Hyundai conglomerate committed suicide last night, throwing himself from the 12th floor of the company’s headquarters in Seoul. He broke with Korean tradition by naming the younger son, Chung Mong Hun, head of the corporation three years ago, causing a rift between the brothers.As part of a restructuring plan to solve the business’s financial problems, Chung Mong Koo took control of the Hyundai motor corporation.Chung Mong Hun, described by one profile writer as an “unsocial man” who worked long hours, was head of Hyundai Asan, which had interests in tourism and was promoting joint ventures with North Korea.

In January he was banned from leaving the country pending an investigation into allegations of illegal payments of hundreds of millions of dollars to officials in North Korea to ensure a summit between the two countries took place in 2000. South Korean police announced two weeks ago they were stepping up their investigation into the affair, in which company money was laundered by a suspected go-between to guarantee the historic meeting went ahead.. Thirty tons of British aid and medical supplies were due to be flown out to Liberia last night as aid agencies stepped up efforts to help more than 200,000 people left homeless and hungry by the civil war. A spokesman for the charity said he hoped the arrival of 300 Nigerian troops today would facilitate the distribution of the aid, but called on the US to take the leading role in the peacekeeping mission.David Throp, from Save the Children, said: “This is the only practical way to ensure the success of the peace enforcement resolution the US administration itself has placed before the UN Security Council.” The charity has 60 Liberian staff in the country, who are being supported by a small team of emergency experts.The United Nations food agency, the World Food Programme (WFP), began airlifting food into Liberia’s besieged capital over the weekend for the first time since fighting broke out last month.

The first load, a 12-ton consignment of food, arrived in Monrovia on Saturday from neighbouring Sierra Leone.Aid efforts have been hampered since the middle of July when rebel forces took control of Liberia’s main port, leaving the agency with no access to more than 10,000 tons of food it had stored in warehouses around the capital. Aranda da Silva, WFP’s regional director for West Africa, said: “It’s an expensive operation but we have no choice. People are crying out for food and this is the only we can get aid into the city at the moment.”A spokesman for Oxfam UK said the charity would transport £200,000 of water purification and sanitation equipment to Liberia next week.. Tears streamed down the cheeks of the small boy on a stretcher inside the hospital door.