Hamas: Gaza attack contradicts-Palestinian interest
The Palestinian security organizations in the Gaza Strip, and especially the Hamas government's internal security force, have launched an investigation into Monday morning's attempted terror attack near the Karni crossing.
The Israeli attack on Gaza is a tragedy for Palestinians and a high-risk enterprise for Israel, but the ongoing conflict also has worrisome implications for Egypt, which shares an unhappy border with the embattled territory.
Israel’s understandable desire to stop rocket attacks from Gaza and prevent Hamas from rearming has stirred talk in some quarters of a new Egyptian occupation of Gaza, a prospect which would ignite Egyptian domestic opposition like none other.
According to an initial Israeli army probe, Palestinian gunmen approached the fence with trucks and horses loaded with explosive devices. Four Palestinians were killed in an exchange of fire with Israel Defense Forces soldiers, and the rest escaped. There were no injuries among the troops. The IDF believes the gunmen had planned to kidnap a soldier.
The sources stressed that Hamas supports the organizations and understands that they are entitled to respond when the Israeli side violates the truce, but when there is no immediate reason the organizations must "honor the interest of the Strip's residents, who need to see the blockade lifted, the crossings opened and the lull maintained."
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Gabon's leader Bongo dead
Gabon's President Omar Bongo, Africa's longest-serving ruler,His death was confirmed by the country's Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong in a written statement.There had been conflicting reports earlier on Monday about whether Mr Bongo, who had cancer, had died in a Spanish clinic.
In his statement, Mr Ndong said Mr Bongo had died of a heart attack shortly before 1230GMT.In the capital Libreville, the BBC's Linel Kwatsi said people had already been stockpiling food following rumours of the president's death earlier in the day. They feared shops would shut if it was confirmed. 
Bongo took power in 1967, seven years after the West African country's independence from France.
He imposed one-party rule a year after succeeding the country's first president, who died in office. He allowed multiparty elections after a new constitution in 1991, but his party has retained control of the government since then.
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