We understood the need to give a humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza who we don't see as our enemy.
Mark Regev: “We understood the need to give a humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza who we don't see as our enemy.”
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Regev clarifies Israel's stance on humanitarian cease-fires and differentiates between the people of Gaza and Hamas.
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There is no excuses for it. And we have to look into this. We paid for our mistakes on October 7th in blood, in the blood of over 1,200 Israelis who were -- who were murdered, and another 240 that were kidnapped and taken to Gaza.
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…
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.
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.