Israeli forces rolled into two West Bank villages near Jenin early Saturday, a day after a suicide bombing in a crowded Jerusalem market killed six people and wounded scores more. The suicide attack prompted U.S. authorities to indefinitely call off a meeting between Secretary of State Colin Powell and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, which had been scheduled for Saturday morning. Powell, who met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Friday, is trying to bring about a political settlement to the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Sharon and Powell failed to agree on when Israel will end its West Bank military operations, that have included sealing off Palestinian towns in an attempt to destroy what it calls "the Palestinian terrorist infrastructure."

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