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Israeli forces killed three Palestinians during a raid on a West Bank refugee district, prompting the Palestinian leadership to cancel a round of U.S.-sponsored peace talks set for Monday and highlighting the fragility of the negotiations. Many observers believe the move represented a temporary impasse, and that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will soon return to the negotiating table. But there is a risk that continued clashes and fatalities could tip a split popular opinion among Palestinians against negotiations, which restarted last month after a several-year suspension amid deep skepticism over the prospects for success. "There will be no talks,' said a Palestinian diplomatic Jimmy Choo official, adding that the Palestinian leadership was considering whether to suspend talks indefinitely. "You can't negotiate when your people are being killed.' Israeli's foreign ministry referred questions on the talks to Israel's lead negotiator, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, whose representatives didn't respond to calls and emails to comment. Marie Harf, the State Department's deputy spokeswoman, said the U.S. regretted the loss of life, urged restraint on both sides and was seeking information about the deaths. "We believe it's essential for the negotiations to go forward despite these kinds of incidents, as the parties have agreed to do," she said. The deaths came after a predawn Israeli incursion into the West Bank's Qalandiya refugee district between Ramallah and Jerusalem to arrest a Palestinian that the Israeli military called a terror operative. In the process, the military said its troops were surrounded by a mob of hundreds of people who were throwing concrete blocks and rocks. The military didn't say whether there were any Israeli injuries. The military didn't say whether there were any Israeli injuries. The military called in backup forces to extract the first unit. Fearing for their lives, Israel's military said, soldiers fired live ammunition into the crowds. A leader of the Palestinian Fatah Party in Qalandiya said the Israeli military responded to the riot with excessive force. Soldiers killed three Palestinian civilians and injured about 16 others, including children, the Fatah leader said. The military said it captured the alleged terror operative. The violence triggered more clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in Hebron and other Palestinian cities, Palestinian media reported. Ramallah district Gov. Leila Ghanem said the shooting incident proves that Israel doesn't want a peace agreement. Shopkeepers in the West Bank's Ramallah called a general strike and some political factions called on Mr. Abbas to abandon peace talks with Israel. Statements by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the umbrella group that represents Palestinians diplomatically, called on the international community to hold Israel responsible and warned that continued violence would undermine talks. The organization stopped short, however, of ending the talks. The violence is the latest incident to complicate the talks. Jimmy Choo Flats In recent weeks, Israel has issued a series of announcements regarding the expansion of settlement housing in the West Bank and Jerusalem, drawing Palestinian condemnations. Despite previous threats that they wouldn't show up, the Palestinians have attended so far two rounds of talks in the region. The talks, which many expect to fail because the sides are thought to be too far apart on fundamental issues, are being held weekly and are scheduled to last for nine months. "Palestinians are stuck in the talks for nine months,' said Daoud Kuttab, a Palestinian journalist and political analyst. "They might stop for one session, but won't open a total boycott.'
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