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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I do know that groups like Hamas, like Islamic jihad and unfortunately also the Palestinian authority have been praising these sort of attacks, have been putting these sort of murders up on a pedestal, and that there is a culture being…
We will agree, and we will only agree to a temporary cease-fire in Gaza for the release of our hostages.
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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.