In response to the bloodshed, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's more moderate Fatah movement urged him to consider breaking off contacts with the Israeli government, despite his pledge to the United States to hold regular meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

British police have enough evidence to bring charges "within three weeks," The Mail on Sunday reported, citing unidentified sources described as close to [Alexander Litvinenko]'s widow, Marina. Scotland Yard would not comment on the report.