Hamas showed its true colors on Monday, just two days after establishing a unity government, by taking credit for a terrorist attack at the Karni crossing, and attempting to smuggle a suicide bomber across from the Egyptian border, senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office said Monday night.

"The direct result of a government like the new Palestinian government that openly supports terrorism - a government that sadly now is also made up of Fatah - is a terrorist attack against Israel openly claimed by Hamas terrorists," one official said. "We hope the international community will mark both the words and the overt actions of this new Hamas-led government."

Hamas took responsibility for a rare sniper attack along the Gaza security fence on Monday. And in Egypt, authorities said they apprehended a Hamas suicide bomber who was on his way to an attack inside Israel.

On Monday morning a Palestinian sniper in the Gaza Strip shot and wounded an Israel Electric Corporation employee working next to the Karni Crossing. The 42-year-old worker - Kobi Ohayun - was moderately wounded and was evacuated to Beersheba's Soroka Hospital...

...Meanwhile Monday, Egyptian authorities announced that they had detained a Hamas suicide bomber who was on his way to carry out an attack inside Israel. The man, Salah Adnan Saleh Abdel-Salam, 21, was arrested after he left a mosque in the border city of El-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, police said...