Mark Regev

We will agree, and we will only agree to a temporary cease-fire in Gaza for the release of our hostages.

We will not live like that any longer. We saw what they're capable of doing. We saw the sort of gruesome, terrible, horrific violence they inflicted upon us. We refuse to live with that anymore sort of neighbor anymore. And we are now…

I do know that groups like Hamas, like Islamic jihad and unfortunately also the Palestinian authority have been praising these sort of attacks, have been putting these sort of murders up on a pedestal, and that there is a culture being…

It's clear that these negotiations, if they ever resume will have to be done in discretion, but the fundamental equation is clear. They end violence, no more rockets on Israel, no more attacks whether through the sea or by those terror…

In other words, we went to Egypt after there was total cessation of all the violence and we'll not go back until the rockets stop because we are not going to negotiate and have rockets falling in Israel at the same time.

One hundred percent, Israel has no interest whatsoever in seeing more bloodshed. It's been more than enough.

Frankly, we don't know. Israel is ready for an unconditional extension of the cease-fire. We've said so all along.

Hamas has a list of demands, I think, my prime minister put it like this, he said they have a list of demands from here to bloody and if you don't accept and sign on the bottom line, we'll shoot rockets again and obviously that's a…

It's important to stress. That means every life lost in the last three weeks is because Hamas rejected an offer that apparently it has accepted today.

Our enemy are the Hamas terrorists who have shot over the last three weeks more than 3,000 rockets into Israel, trying to kill our citizens.

We understood the need to give a humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza who we don't see as our enemy.