Lately, the Egyptians have stepped up their anti-Israel attacks, and relations between the countries are as bad as they have been in years.

Israelis killed a Palestinian described as an Islamic militant from the Hamas group who had helped plan two bombings in Netanya and other anti-Israel attacks.

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told Parliament today that the ability of the Palestinians to stop anti-Israel attacks, or at least hold them to a minimum, would be considered "the main test."

Only a few days ago, he pointed out, Mr. Sharon had boasted that "a solution has been found" to deal with the anti-Israel attacks.

A significant departure from the past is that the authority, after a long delay, has finally put into operation military-style courts to put radicals on trial for anti-Israel attacks.

In Jerusalem, a Hamas leaflet distributed at the Al Aksa Mosque pledged that anti-Israel attacks would be intensified.

The Rabin spokesman, Oded Ben-Ami, said the Palestinians were Hamas "activists" who had been involved in preparing bombs and otherwise aiding anti-Israel attacks.

In the following months, Muslim radicals carried out several anti-Israel attacks, including a suicide bombing in January that killed 21 people.

But Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin reaffirmed that despite the anti-Israel attacks, he will not suspend the peace talks, as the rightist opposition demands.

Mr. Sharon has promised to strike back at Palestinians after every anti-Israel attack.