You have to send your troops into Palestinian-controlled areas.

He said the Israelis "have no intention" of reoccupying Palestinian-controlled areas.

The maps showed that six settlements will lie within 500 yards from a Palestinian-controlled area.

Israeli military officials argue that the Palestinians had hoped the rockets would deter them from attacking Palestinian-controlled areas.

The Israeli Army also did not carry through with threats to enter Palestinian-controlled areas.

"I ask Israel to halt incursions into Palestinian-controlled areas, and begin the withdrawal from those cities it has recently occupied," he said.

And both sides effectively acknowledge that nothing can happen until Israel completes its withdrawal from Palestinian-controlled areas.

The Israeli presence was the longest stay in a Palestinian-controlled area since the start of the current Palestinian uprising more than a year ago.

Israel began attacking Palestinian-controlled areas after three suicide bombings over the weekend, which killed 25 people.

Israeli officials denied that their troops were preparing to move into Palestinian-controlled areas.