On Tuesday, Israel sealed its crossings with the Gaza Strip, in return to a rocket assault across borders, says The Associated Press.

On Monday, late afternoon, Palestinians fired a missile, but the occurrence had no damages and nobody was hurt.

As a consequence of gun attacks, the border crossings will be closed for five days, as an order from Defense Minister Ehud Barak At the moment, the access will be allowed only to pedestrians, said a military spokesperson. In spite of this, the Gaza Strip's boundary with Egypt had to open for two days to let the mass of people trapped on both sides to cross.

Additionally, Palestinian people in need of medical care will be allowed in Egypt, informed the Egyptian diplomat Nabil Amr on Monday. Moreover, Palestinians who went abroad will be consented to come back.

Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Britain, who part of the last year was an international representative to Palestinian citizens, said that it will be difficult for the parts implicated in the conflict to gain a grasp. In a discussion with his Jerusalem offices, Tony Blair said that “the view of what is happening here tends to lurch between unjustified optimism — pretty rare, actually — to unnecessarily bleak pessimism, which is more common”. He then added that “there is a cease-fire now and both sides think the other’s commitment is tactical rather than strategic.”