this is much larger than a hostage crisis. On early Wednesday morning when Hezbollah attacked Israel with a rocket barrage, crossed the border, shot up some of our soldiers, killed some, took others hostage, that was an act of war.
Regev characterizes Hezbollah's actions as an act of war, framing the conflict's seriousness.
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Our enemy are the Hamas terrorists who have shot over the last three weeks more than 3,000 rockets into Israel, trying to kill our citizens.
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.
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.
The operation against the tunnels is winding up anyway. We've destroyed -- located and destroyed those terra tunnels that allowed Hamas to send into Israel death squads to kill our people.