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.
Mark Regev: “There is no excuse for this sort of behavior. And we're currently investigating it. And it's not the police…”
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Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, responds to the beating of a Palestinian-American teenager by Israeli police.
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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.
They say these four little Palestinian boys would be alive right now if Hamas had accepted the ceasefire yesterday.
One hundred percent, Israel has no interest whatsoever in seeing more bloodshed. It's been more than enough.
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.