Jerusalem - A long-awaited prisoner swap between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement may take place on Wednesday next week, Israel Radio reported Friday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to convene his cabinet on Tuesday, the day before, which is to give a final go-ahead for the move, the radio said.

The Israeli military has been ordered to make final preparations so that it will be able to carry out the move by that time, the radio said.

There was no immediate confirmation.

Olmert's representative on the prisoners of war issue, Ofer Dekel, signed the deal, brokered by a United Nations-appointed German mediator, Gerhard Conrad, while in Germany Sunday.

Ramallah - The Israeli army continued Wednesday for the third day raiding Palestinian institutions associated with the Hamas movement in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

An army force raided Nablus city hall and, after detaining the guards, searched the premises and confiscated several files.

Damage was caused to the offices during the search, according to municipal sources.

The Nablus city council is dominated by the Islamic movement Hamas. Its mayor, Adli Yaish, who ran on the Hamas ticket, has been in an Israeli prison for the past two years.

The army force also raided the Islamic school in the city and searched the premises. Several mosques were also searched.

Gaza City - An explosion ripped through a Hamas training camp in the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, killing at least two militants of the radical Islamic movement and wounding two others, police and medical officials said. 

"The paramedics evacuated two dead bodies and two wounded persons and we expect more casualties because the blast destroyed the whole facility," said Gaza emergency services chief Mo'aweya Hassanein. 

Tel Aviv - The Israeli government said Tuesday it will only give the final go-head for an announced prisoners swap with Lebanon's Hezbollah militant movement after it receives a final, satisfactor

Jerusalem - The East Jerusalem Palestinian who killed three Israelis Wednesday when he ran amuck with a bulldozer in Jerusalem did not belong to any militant organzation and may have acted out of temporary insanity, his family's lawyer said Thursday.

Israel Radio quoted the lawyer, Shimon Koko, as saying that had Hussam Duwiyat not been killed during his rampage, it is doubtful whether he would have been judged fit to stand trial.

He said Duwiyat, 30, was a drugs and property felon and did not act out of religious fundamentalist motives. Israel Radio reported that Duwiyat had also served two years in jail for rape.

Koko said Israel had to prove Duwiyat had in fact been a terrorist before demolishing his home, as Israeli leaders and politicians are demanding be done.

Tel Aviv - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak ordered the reopening Wednesday of the crossing points into the Gaza Strip, after they had been shut for one day in response to the launching of a rocket from the salient into southern Israel.

For the first time in a year, construction materials will be allowed into the Strip, Israeli media reported.

The rocket launched late Monday caused neither injuries nor damage, and was the fifth rocket launched since a truce between Israel and the Gazan militant organizations went into effect at 0300 GMT on June 19.