
 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined world leaders in harshly  condemning bombing of a Tel Aviv bus Wednesday, Nov. 21, as a “terrorist attack”  when she arrived in Cairo from Jerusalem and Ramallah. She found  Egyptian-brokered ceasefire for the Gaza Strip near vanishing point. Police are  hunting for the bomber who placed his explosive device under a bus seat and fled  before it blew up on Shaul Hamelekh Blvd. opposite the defense ministry and IDF  GHQ and injured 27 people. Three are still in serious condition. A witness of the bus bombing reported a man placing a package on one of the  seats and exiting the bus. Another claimed the package was thrown in to the bus  through a window. A large dragnet has been thrown in the area for suspects and  abettors. The attack took place as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was  closeted in Jerusalem for her second meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin  Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders to discuss the stalled Gaza  ceasefire.  debkafile:  The Tel  Aviv bus attack, recalling the 2000 Palestinian suicide bombing offensive  plaguing Israel streets, could prompt an early Israeli decision to go forward  with the IDF ground operation against Gaza terrorists.
More than 75  Palestinian missiles were fired against Israel from Gaza up until 1500 hours, a  good proportion  intercepted by Iron Dome. The IAF struck a wide range of Hamas  government offices, banks, safe house and rocket positions in the Gaza  Strip.
Police have been on  alert for terrorist attacks since last week when Hamas and Jihad Islami  threatened to revert to their suicide bombing campaign inside Israeli  towns.