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

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

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.

Hamas has a list of demands, I think, my prime minister put it like this, he said they have a list of demands from here to bloody and if you don't accept and sign on the bottom line, we'll shoot rockets again and obviously that's a…

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.