The Palestinian President has warned that anyone violating the ceasefire agreed by the Palestinian Authority and Israel will be arrested. Yasser Arafat was speaking after talks with representatives of the Arab League in Cairo.
His comments came as two Palestinian protesters were shot dead and 40 others injured in clashes with police during anti-American demonstrators in Gaza. Witnesses said that police killed the demonstrators with live bullets at the rally called by the militant Hamas group, but police said masked gunmen killed the two, aged 21 and 13.
Police had been firing live bullets and teargas at thousands of protesters who staged a march in Gaza in support of Osama bin Laden. The march was organised by Hamas, in defiance of a Palestinian Authority ban.
Police said at least 10 policemen were wounded, one of them by gunfire by masked men inside Gaza's Hamas-run Islamic University.
In a rare move, Gaza police chief Ghazi al-Jabali declared the site of the demonstration a "closed military area" where photography was prohibited. Police officers told journalists not to cover the protest.
Thousands of Egyptian students have protested against US retaliatory strikes on Afghanistan. Security sources said that more than 20,000 students at nine universities in northern Egypt and Cairo protested against the attacks with some referring to the strikes as a "war against Islam".
Egypt has made no official comment on the attacks, but President Hosni Mubarak said previously that he supported the "fight against terrorism".
The Israeli Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, described the decision by President George W Bush to launch the military strikes as courageous.
He said that Washington had given prior warnings of the attacks to Israel. The Israeli Defence Ministry said that the strikes posed no threat to Israel but that it was prepared for every eventuality. Mr Peres said that he was praying for the American forces and their allies.
