GAZA, 9 July — The Islamic resistance movements, Hamas and Jihad, are weighing proposals to join a national unity government with other Palestinian groups including President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah. The move comes in the wake of reports that Arafat was planning to reshuffle the Palestinian Authority government. Ismail Abu Shenab, a Hamas leader, told Asharq Al-Awsat Arabic newspaper that a high-level committee was studying a national plan that would be agreeable to all Palestinian groups. However, Shenab said his movement has not yet taken a decision on the proposal.

Meanwhile, Palestinians yesterday buried the latest victim of the bloodshed in the Middle East, an 11-year-old boy shot dead by Israeli troops.

The Gaza Strip funeral for Khalil Al-Mograbi came hours after Israeli soldiers made a commando raid into Palestinian territory and abducted a fighter from the Hamas movement at gunpoint.

Earlier Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said in a interview published in yesterday’s New York Times that a week-long period of “calm” was over and that it was time to move forward with the next phases of the Mitchell peace plan. Responding to Arafat’s statement Israeli minister without portfolio Danny Naveh told AFP the Palestinians were not doing what they had to do for the seven-day period to start. Arafat criticized the Bush administration for what he suggested was an insufficiently active role in getting the Middle East peace process back on track.

“I am reminding the Americans that President George Bush, the father, had started all this with the peaceful meeting in Madrid,” he said, referring to the 1991 Madrid peace conference, which took place when the current president’s father was in the White House.

Arafat also said he anticipated military escalation by the Israelis: “They are speaking about it. Stages of escalation, it became not a secret,” he said.

At the funeral of Mograbi, Hamas members threatened to unleash 10 suicide bombers against Israel in revenge for the killing of the boy. “There are 10 martyrs waiting inside Israel. They are ready at any moment to get revenge on the Israeli killers,” shouted members of Hamas’s military wing.

“If the Israelis have big bombs, we have human bombs,” they chanted through loudspeakers during the funeral at Rafah. Mograbi was gunned down Saturday near the Rafah border crossing in the Gaza Strip, bringing to 639 the number of people killed since the violence erupted in late September. About 1,000 people turned out for the funeral.

In the Palestinian-controlled area of Hebron, a divided West Bank town that has seen some of the worst violence since the start of the Palestinian uprising or intifada, Hamas activist Ayub Fuad Sharawi was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers. The 39-year-old, previously jailed by Israel, was pulled from his car and beaten as he was driving to work with his wife and three children, his wife Umm Fuad told AFP.

In another raid, Israeli soldiers beat up Palestinian residents of a West Bank village who tried to prevent them from setting up an army post, injuring seven, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.

Palestinian intelligence officials said the army also arrested two residents. Residents said more than 60 troops swarmed into the village in jeeps and a armored vehicle, seized a house belonging to Morad Abdel Karim Tamimi, and arrested two people.

A coalition of 13 Palestinian movements called for protests against Israel’s domination of the Palestinian economy and in particular a crippling army blockade around the occupied territories.

The Coalition of National and Islamic Forces, an umbrella group which includes Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups, demanded Palestinians demonstrate on Tuesday and Wednesday against “the invasion of the Palestinian market by Israeli products” and “to spur the boycott of these products.”

 In Damascus, Russia and Syria agreed on the need to defuse tensions between Arab states and Israel, Russia’s Middle East envoy Andrei Vdovin said yesterday. “We share the same view on the need to move past the tense climate and return to a policy based on ... the principle of land for peace,” Vdovin said at a press conference with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Al-Shara.

In another development, Israel demanded yesterday an uncensored viewing of a videotape made by UN peacekeepers in Lebanon which it says may shed light on the abduction of three Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah fighters.