tive security chief for the West Bank, said Monday‘s attack at a bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba had been carried out by a Palestinian from the West Bank town of Hebron. "It was an individual act," Rajoub said in an interview late on Monday in the Palestinian self-rule town of Ramallah. He said the man was well known to Palestinian security services but he did not make clear whether the attacker, who was arrested by Israeli police, had links to any organisation. Other Palestinian security sources say he is a construction worker with Islamist leanings. Israel‘s army chief, Shaul Mofaz, told reporters he believed the suspect‘s arrest would "lead to other disclosures". He did not elaborate on what kind of information might be gleaned. Monday‘s attack compounded obstacles to a new interim land-and-security agreement which U.S. President Bill Clinton is trying to wrest from Israeli and Palestinian leaders at a summit at Wye Plantation in Maryland, near Washington. Israeli officials at the summit, extended into a sixth day on Tuesday, called the attack an example of Palestinian negligence and said they would limit the scope of the talks to the security steps that they want from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Rajoub called the Beersheba attack a "gift" to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has said Israel will not hand over a further 13 percent of the West Bank to Palestinian self-rule unless he gets cast-iron Palestinian guarantees of action to combat anti-Israeli violence. Rajoub said Netanyahu had been "waiting for such an attack in order to justify his refusal to implement the further redeployment. Israeli police have said the man arrested in Beersheba has confessed to the attack, but have withheld other details. Scores of Israelis have been killed in suicide bombings since the first interim peace deal was signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation in 1993, but the Islamic militant group Hamas has not carried out a large-scale attack for more than a year. The attack was the latest in a recent spate in Israel and the West Bank that have included shootings, stabbings and the Hebron grenade incident. No group has claimed responsibility for any of the attacks.