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Latest news is available at the Jerusalem Post. Photos and maps here. Very frequent updates at Israellycool.

• The IDF is trying to prevent any transport of the kidnapped soldier out of the Palestinian Authority by destroying bridges and stepping up border security. The kidnappers are threatening to kill him if Israel doesn't withdraw.
  
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• The terrorists may have kidnapped a second Israeli.
  
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• Israel has threatened to target Hamas leaders if the soldier is harmed. Syria has dispatched troops to protect the Hamas leader who organized the attack and kidnapping.
  
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• The Muslim Brotherhood wants Egypt to attack Israel in retaliation for the IDF entering Gaza.
  
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• Op-For asks if we are seeing the beginning of the 2006 War. Israel attacking Gaza, Egyptian troops massed on their border, Syria protecting one side in the conflict. It could escalate.
  
  
• OpinionJournal calls for more targeted assassinations of terrorist leaders.
  
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• Some point out that the kidnapping was a military attack and Israel should treat the PA as an enemy nation. This strategy couldn't make the situation any worse.
  

Update: the kidnapped Israeli teenager's dead body may have been found. The soldier has not been found yet.