What does a terrorist group do when Arafat is not around to agitate for them anymore?

Ha’aretz is reporting that Hezbollah terrorists attempted to infiltrate the Mount Dov region of Israel today:

At around 4:45 P.M., a force from the IDF's elite Magellan unit spotted a group of five Hezbollah fighters crossing the border into the Har Dov region, in an area where there is no perimeter fence. The IDF soldiers opened fire on the Hezbollah cell and an exchange ensued, resulting in the light wounding of a Magellan officer. One of the Hezbollah fighters was killed in the exchange, while others may have been wounded.

After realizing that the cell had been spotted, other Hezbollah fighters began firing mortars at IDF positions in the area in an effort to provide cover for their retreating comrades. The mortar barrage left one Golani soldier at the Dalia outpost dead. Two more Golani soldiers sustained light injuries in the mortar attack.

The IDF responded immediately with artillery fire aimed at Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, thus allowing the casualties from the mortar attack to be evacuated to the foot of Har Dov and from there by helicopter to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and Rebecca Sieff Hospital in Safed. At the same time, IAF fighter jets and helicopters attacked five Hezbollah positions in Lebabon. There were no reports from Lebanon of casualties. The exchanges of fire caused panic in Kiryat Shmona, and the city opened a number of its bomb shelters.

The head of the IDF's Northern Command, Major General Benny Ganz, said last night, "It is still too early to assess how far things will go with this incident."The IDF has lodged a complaint about the Hezbollah action with the commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

Hezbollah, for its part, said that the organization was responding to an Israeli violation of the border arrangements. "One of our forces spotted Israeli soldiers crossing the blue line [the international border] and responded," said Sheikh Nabil Qauq, a Hezbollah leader in South Lebanon.

So who do you believe? My money is on the Israeli’s holding the higher ground and not for all the obvious reasons but because there is simply no strategic purpose to be served for attempting to infiltrate Lebanon and risk an escalation of violence while the IDF prepares to expel Jews from Gaza. That’s the cutting your nose to spite your face military thinking that has never characterized the IDF command ethos. But it would be in Hezbollah’s interest to escalate the violence and provoke a military response from Israel in order to prove the relevancy of Hezbollah’s continued armed existence in Lebanon especially if the rumours are true that anti-Syrian opposition leaders Hariri and General Michel Aoun have formed a coalition which effectively allows them to oust control from the pro-Syrian forces of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud’s party.