There's been a terrorist attack near the Rafah terminal crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. No deaths reported so far. Maybe 13 wounded IDF soldiers. (Update: at least 5 deaths now reported, all members of a Bedouin reconnaissance unit)
Two items of note about this incident. First, it appears that it was the result of cooperation between Hamas and what's being called an extremist wing of Arafat's Abu Mazen's Fatah organization. And then there's this:
A Palestinian militant giving his name only as Abu Majad said the blast in the 250-meter tunnel was retaliation for what he called "the assassination" of Yasser Arafat, who died on November 11.Nasser al-Kidwa, Arafat's nephew and the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, has refused to rule out that the Palestinian leader was poisoned by Israel, despite a statement from the French hospital that there was no evidence to support the claim.
(Update: this story has been changing throughout the day and the articles linked above revised accordingly)
