Israel has carried out its first bombing raid on the Gaza Strip in two months. The bombing came one day after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed three people in the Red Sea resort of Eilat.

Tzipi Livni, Israeli foreign minister : “Unfortunately, in the Palestinian Authority, instead of a fight against terrorism, we see a government which is controlled by a terrorist organization. Israel shows restraint in order to give the Palestinians the opportunity to fight terrorism and to stop these terror attacks on Israel.”

The Palestinian government defended the suicide attack.

Fawzi Barhoum, Hamas official: “All of this type of violent and terrorist against our Palestinian people let the resistance make this type of operation, resistance operation, in order to make support to our Palestinian people.”