Lets beginning our coverage in jerusalem with wolf blitzer. Tell us more, wolf. Carol, the spokesman for the Israeli Defense forces, Lieutenant Colonel peter lerner has come to cnn, hes with us right now. I want to get specific, Lieutenant Colonel. You say the ceasefire first of all is over, right . Well, absolutely. This organization that s you know, just taken advantage of the humanitarian ceasefire that israel had agreed to carry out and indeed implemented for that full 90 minutes, but they came out of the ground, suicide bomber blew himself up, killing two soldiers, and within the gun fight there, they went back down in the hole and abducted one of our boys. You identified that young israeli soldier, lieutenant, right . Second lieutenant hadar goldin. From a suburb of tel aviv. Was the incident that occurred on the israeli side of the tunnel or the gaza side of the tunnel . It all took place within the gaza strip in the areas where we were operating in recent days, indeed they were
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