In other news from the Middle East, Israeli officials have announced they have reinstated a policy of assassinating wanted members of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad. In February Israel agreed to stop the assassinations as part of a ceasefire deal. On Tuesday Israeli forces fired a missile into Gaza in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports the attack came just ten minutes after the start of a summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.