Palestinians violate ceasefire yet again

A Bedouin Israeli soldier was killed in the attack. Three others were wounded. This latest attack forced Israel to close its crossings into Gaza, opening them only briefly for aid on Tuesday. Certainly these repeated ceasefire violations, as well as the recent Hamas executions in Gaza of Palestinians, does not indicate that there is a desire for stability and peace among Palestinians who control Gaza.

The Jerusalem Post reports:

The IDF has received a green light to respond harshly to the bomb attack Tuesday morning against a military patrol along the border with the Gaza Strip in which one soldier was killed and three others were wounded.

Defense officials would not provide details regarding the planned response but said that it would be in line with Israel's new policy to respond aggressively to any attack following Operation Cast Lead earlier this month.

Early Tuesday morning, a Bedouin tracker was killed and an officer was seriously wounded when a large bomb exploded next to their patrol along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip near the Kissufim Crossing. Two other soldiers were lightly wounded. The bombing was the first lethal attacks perpetrated by the Palestinians since Israel withdrew from Gaza last week.

The family of the fatality requested that neither his name nor his photo be published.

Following the incident, the IDF fired at several targets inside Gaza and IDF soldiers briefly crossed the border in search of the attackers. The troops left Gaza by nightfall and after discovering several additional explosive devices that had been planted nearby. IDF sources said that the terrorists likely took advantage of the heavy fog Tuesday morning to plant and detonate the device.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak called an urgent meeting of top defense officials after the bombing. "This is a difficult attack and we will respond, but there is no point in elaborating," Barak said.

Israel closed its crossings into Gaza to humanitarian aid traffic after briefly opening them Tuesday morning. Gaza border official Raed Fattouh said Israeli officials informed him the closure was due to the attack.

Head of the Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau Amos Gilad said that Israel's response would not be limited to closing the crossings into Gaza.

"The response will not be the way it used to be," Gilad said in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "The equation has changed."

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