TEL AVIV, Israel — The list of Palestinian Arabs granted amnesty this weekend by Prime Minister Olmert of Israel is composed of members of President Abbas’s Fatah Party and includes almost the entire senior West Bank leadership of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, The New York Sun has learned.

The Al-Aqsa Brigades, Fatah’s self-declared military wing, have taken responsibility for every suicide bombing in Israel the past three years.

Mr. Olmert’s office hasn’t released the names of the 178 Palestinian Arabs granted amnesty, but sections of the list obtained by the Sun include Al-Aqsa’s overall chief, Ala Senakreh, the leader of a cell from which a suicide bomber killed 10 civilians — including an American teenager, Daniel Wultz — in Tel Aviv in April 2006, and the perpetrator of a December 2000 shooting that killed Israeli nationalist leader Benyamin Kahane.

The government has issued 178 documents promising that, in return for a signed pledge to resign from any paramilitary organizations and to refrain from terrorism, Israel will not conduct antiterror operations to capture the Fatah fugitives.

Mr. Olmert has granted the amnesty as part of a series of gestures to bolster Mr. Abbas in the West Bank in the wake of the routing and expulsion of Fatah from Gaza by Hamas in the month of June.

A senior spokeswoman for Mr. Olmert, Miri Eisin, would neither confirm nor deny the list of terror suspects granted amnesty obtained by the Sun. “I do not know the list of names, but all included will have to renounce terrorism,” Ms. Eisin said.

Mr. Olmert has granted the terror suspects amnesty “as part of developing a relationship” with Mr. Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, Ms. Eisin said. “The Israeli government is committed to cooperating with the PA just as the PA committed to international principles, and they are already taking concrete steps on their side.

“We hope this deal adds to the momentum to bring about a Palestinian state living securely alongside Israel.”

According to multiple reports yesterday, as part of their amnesty agreement Fatah fighters were turning their weapons in to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for cash payments. Al-Aqsa members contacted by the Sun said about a dozen of the nearly 200 wanted militants had handed in their personal weapons, adding that those who did are keeping the assault rifles issued to them as members of the Fatah security forces.

Asked if he will continue participating in attacks against Israel, a top Al-Aqsa leader who had just signed an amnesty agreement and spoke on condition of anonymity, replied, “If Israel doesn’t give us a reason to carry out attacks then why should we? But if we see the Israelis are looking to escalate things in the West Bank, the resistance will continue.”

According to the portions of the list obtained by the Sun, among the senior Fatah fighters granted amnesty are:

• Mr. Senakreh, overall chief of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank, who is based in Nablus. Yesterday, Mr. Senakreh told the Sun he hasn’t signed the amnesty agreement because his brother wasn’t among those offered immunity. A Palestinian Arab negotiator, Saeb Erekat, will ask Mr. Olmert’s office to grant his brother immunity, Mr. Senakreh said.

• Abu Yousuf, a senior Al-Aqsa leader in Ramallah, allegedly carried out a December 2000 shooting in northern Samaria that killed Kahane, a leader of the nationalist Kahane Chai organization. Mr. Yousuf told the Sun he plans to sign the amnesty agreement.

• Nasser Abu Aziz, Mr. Senakreh’s main deputy and the leader of a group suspected of directing all the suicide bombings in Israel during the past three years, including the attack that killed Wultz. Mr. Aziz yesterday told the Sun he is one of the few Al-Aqsa leaders not signing the amnesty agreement, calling the document is too good to be true. “I am sure this is part of an Israeli conspiracy against our fighters,” he said.