Mark Regev: “We have to deal with the tunnels because they are a very real strategic threat to our country for all these reasons.”

we are trying through our military strikes to neutralize the ability of Hezbollah to reign terror on our cities with rockets and missiles.

If the violence ends and my prime minister said that today, if we see a sustained period of quiet, of course, we're willing to talk about easing restrictions.

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.

And thirdly, and this is the most important element that we want to make sure that Hamas cannot rearm because that's what happened after the previous rounds.