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.
Mark Regev: “In other words, we went to Egypt after there was total cessation of all the violence and we'll not go back until the…”
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Mark Regev emphasizes that Israel will not engage in negotiations until all violence and rocket attacks cease.
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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.
One hundred percent, Israel has no interest whatsoever in seeing more bloodshed. It's been more than enough.
The most important issue is to prevent Hamas from rearming and prevent Hamas from getting more rockets, from digging more tunnels because we don't want just to revisit this conflict in six months or in a year.
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.