Are we to expect a full scale Gaza invasion in the event of a large scale terrorist attack?
Haaretz thinks so: “Israel has told the U.S. that an IDF invasion of Gaza "is a matter of statistics and time," because as terror attacks mount in the Strip - mostly against settlements - "Israel will be forced to act."”

There have been a lot of mortar attacks and Kassam rocket attacks, lately, not just on settlements and military outposts in the Gaza strip, but against towns and villages inside the "Green Line" (pre-1967 Israel) as well – Sderot, for instance. A factory was destroyed there, recently, by a mortar attack. Luckily no one was hurt.