(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel, Jonathan Lis, Arnon Regular, Yair Ettinger - Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Sunday that the Palestinians were not taking any real steps to dismantle the terror infrastructure, and that the actions they are taking are for appearance's sake only, to alleviate American pressure on the PA. IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon said Sunday that senior Hamas officials in Syria and the Gaza Strip were responsible for the suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem last week, in which 21 people were killed. According to Ya'alon, "All Hamas militants are potential targets, and from our perspective all members of the organization are part of the radical core." Ya'alon noted that the radical terror core lies in the Gaza Strip. "If we see that the PA does not deal with this core, we will be forced to do so," he said. The PA uncovered and sealed off four tunnels used to smuggle weapons and drugs from Egypt into the Gaza Strip on Saturday and Sunday. Israel Television quoted a senior government source as saying that the action taken by the PA was "too little, too late."
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