Mark Regev: “We had a chance yesterday to de-escalate. We tried that very seriously. Unfortunately, Hamas was not interested and just…”

They say these four little Palestinian boys would be alive right now if Hamas had accepted the ceasefire yesterday.

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…

There are talks going on in parallel to the military operation against terrorists targeting Gaza. The phones have been ringing and conversations are happening. And if it's possible to find a diplomatic solution that will be a good thing…

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.