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 tormented by these Palestinian groups and unfortunately also by the P.A., which lends support to hatred and violence in conducting these sort of terrible murders.
Mark Regev discusses the role of Palestinian groups in inciting violence.
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We had a chance yesterday to de-escalate. We tried that very seriously. Unfortunately, Hamas was not interested and just increase its attacks upon us.
Hamas not only killed Israelis. Hamas not only torpedoed negotiated U.N. supported cease-fire, humanitarian cease-fire, but they also destroyed the chances of bringing immediate and concrete relief to the people of Gaza.
One hundred percent, Israel has no interest whatsoever in seeing more bloodshed. It's been more than enough.
There is no excuse for this sort of behavior. And we're currently investigating it. And it's not the police investigating themselves. We've initiated impartial objective, independent inquiry into exactly what happened.