Mark Regev: “We have to deal with the tunnels because they are a very real strategic threat to our country for all these reasons.”

It's important to stress. That means every life lost in the last three weeks is because Hamas rejected an offer that apparently it has accepted today.

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…

We will not live like that any longer. We saw what they're capable of doing. We saw the sort of gruesome, terrible, horrific violence they inflicted upon us. We refuse to live with that anymore sort of neighbor anymore. And we are now…

We will agree, and we will only agree to a temporary cease-fire in Gaza for the release of our hostages.