Mark Regev: “we are trying through our military strikes to neutralize the ability of Hezbollah to reign terror on our cities with…”

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.

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.

You can't have a situation where terrorists in Gaza can infiltrate your country, pop up on our side of the frontier with weapons, with explosions, and kidnap people or murder people.

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