Jane Fonda visited Israelis wounded in suicide bomb attacks and met with Israeli peace activists Thursday.

The 64-year-old actor and activist is on a weeklong trip to the region and plans to attend meetings of Israeli and Palestinian women organized by a global movement to stop violence against women.

The movement, called V-Day, was inspired by the off-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues and its playwright, Eve Ensler, who is also in Israel.

Fonda and Ensler were to speak later Thursday to Jewish and Arab doctors and patients at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital after a performance of selected passages from Monologues put on by a group of Israeli women.

Earlier, Fonda, a two-time Oscar winner and fitness guru, visited Israelis recovering from chronic injuries at the hospital's rehabilitation centre.

On Saturday, Fonda is to visit the West Bank town of Ramallah to see a physical rehabilitation centre, a Palestinian refugee camp and Yasser Arafat's headquarters complex, most of which Israeli troops have destroyed.