erusalem ? Israel will invite Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas to Jerusalem to discuss restarting the peace process once a new Palestinian Cabinet is in place, an Israeli official said Thursday.

Palestinian officials said Abbas would agree to meet with Israel’s leaders and affirmed that the Palestinian Authority would accept a U.S.-backed peace plan.

Israel, however, wants changes in the plan, including a stop to all violence as a precondition for other steps.

Underscoring that challenge, a Palestinian suicide bomber killed a guard and injured 10 bystanders in a rush-hour attack Thursday at an Israeli train station.

A breakaway faction of a militia linked to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement claimed responsibility for the attack in the town of Kfar Saba, near the West Bank. Abbas told Israel’s Channel 10 that he condemned the bombing and said “we oppose all such attacks.”

On Wednesday, Arafat and Abbas reached an accord on a Palestinian Cabinet. A Palestinian parliament vote on the new government is expected within a week.

The United States and Israel hope the formal establishment of Abbas’ government will amount to a means of sidelining Arafat, whom they accuse of links to terrorism and failing to crack down on militias.

The White House affirmed that once the Palestinian parliament has approved Abbas’ Cabinet, the peace plan — a joint effort by the so-called Quartet of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia — will be formally presented.

The plan calls for an end to all violence and a full Jewish settlement freeze in the West Bank and Gaza.

It would also demand that all settlements built after 2001 be dismantled.

Those actions could be followed, as early as this year, by the creation of a Palestinian state with provisional borders. Final borders, the status of Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees are to be decided in later stages.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat reached an agreement with Mahmoud Abbas just seven hours before a midnight Wednesday deadline, paving the way for the unveiling of a long-awaited road