We had a chance yesterday to deescalate. We tried that very seriously. Unfortunately, Hamas was not interested in just increasing attacks upon us and today, we're responding in time, in kind.
Mark Regev discusses Israel's attempts to deescalate the situation and Hamas's continued aggression.
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Not the scope. The goal remains the same to stop those rockets coming in on Israeli cities and to prevent Hamas terrorists from infiltrating across the border through those tunnels trying to kill our people.
We had a chance yesterday to de-escalate. We tried that very seriously. Unfortunately, Hamas was not interested and just increase its attacks upon us.
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.
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.