Mark Regev: “Frankly, we don't know. Israel is ready for an unconditional extension of the cease-fire. We've said so all along.”

It's clear, though, the focus up until now was on the military track and the diplomatic track and seeing how those tracks complement each other, as Hamas has shut the door now to the diplomatic track.

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…

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.

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.