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On 1 July 2003, in Jerusalem, Sharon and Abbas held a first-ever ceremonial inauguration to peace talks, televised bed in some(prenominal) Arabic and Hebrew. both leaders utter the violence had g i on everyplacely long and that they were connected to the Roadmap for peace. On 2 July, Israeli march pulled out of Bethlehem and transferred operate on to Palestinian surety forces. The plan compulsory that Palestinian law take over from withdrawing Israeli forces and assay any anti-Israeli activist attacks. At the same(p) time, the U.S. announced a 30 iodine million million million aid software to the Palestinian control to help rebuild infrastructure finished by Israeli incursions. \nThe hudna quickly collapsed. On 3 July, the IDF killed 2 civilians. In an IDF feat to arrest Hamas members, shootout broke out in which an Israeli soldier and both alleged Hamas militants were killed. A new troll of violence happened. Hamas responded with a self-annihilation bomb on 12 rattling(a), cleansing one Israeli civilian. al-Fatah claimed responsibility for a second self-annihilation bombing on 12 August, killing an new(prenominal) Israeli citizen. Despite this de facto invasion of the hudna. Hamas stated that the armistice would continue. \nHostilities then escalated. The Israeli army killed Moslem Jihads Muhammad Seeder on 14 August 2003; the Jerusalem wad 2 mass murder by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on 19 August, killed 23 and wounded 136 people. Israel reacted causation large-scale wipeout to Palestinian race centres. On 21 August, Israel assassinated Hamas policy-making leader Ismail Abu Shanab. Shanab, who support a two-state solution, powerfully opposed suicide bombings and tried to relate the ceasefire, was regarded as one of Hamass more see to it and pragmatic leaders. along with Shanab, three other civilians (his two bodyguards and a 74 year-old man) were killed. The undermentioned days it proceed with a prune of further Is raeli killing-attacks. The assassinations of Seeder and Shanab resulted in Hamas calling dour the ceasefire with Israel. International condemnation of Israel increased because Israel was widely believed to be indisposed to respect the truce.