Is capturing a soldier engaged in military action terrorism?

It looks like Israel has started to move into Gaza and given up hope finding the captured soldier alive.

In his denunciation of Hamas, Israeli PM Olmert described the capture of the Israeli soldier as an act of terror.

Is that an accurate description?

Israel?

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4647.shtml

17 April 2006 -- It is a sad irony that Palestinian Prisoners' Day comes this year as massive numbers of Palestinian children are being arrested and detained by Israeli forces. In the first quarter of 2006 alone, some 350 children were arrested -- compared to around 700 child arrests in the whole of 2005. The vast increase in arrests is in turn leading to overcrowding in prisons as record numbers of juveniles are being held in unsuitable and unhygienic conditions.

Since the beginning of this intifada in September 2000, Israeli forces have arrested around 4,000 Palestinian children, 400 of whom are still in Israeli prisons and detention centres. The process of arrest and detention of Palestinian children is a process of systematic abuse and mistreatment which flouts international legal standards and denies the basic human rights of detainees first as children and secondly as prisoners.

I think the Bush terror rhetoric has enabled brutality around.

If it was carried out by an elected government's armed forces it is an act of war.

Yes.

It's how said captured soldier is treated that counts. And then you have to look at the aggressor -- are they acting on their own or as part of a government force? That's also a part of defining the crime.

It is a capture of an enemey.

No Israeli soldier, to be frank, should have been beyond the Green Line since the end of the 1967 war. Actually, if everybody followed the UN 1947 Partition Plan, then the borders of Israel and Palestine (which does not yet exist because Israel administers the West Bank/Gaza Strip) would be vastly different than they are today. Neither Egypt nor Jordan nor Israel had any right to claim what is now known as the West Bank/Gaza Strip at any period since 1947:

http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/cf02d057b04d356385256ddb006dc02f/3cbe4ee1ef30169085256b98006f540d!OpenDocument