“There will be no ceasefire, general ceasefire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu said in an interview with American ABC News.
He adds that Israel may continue to allow small “tactical pauses” for humanitarian purposes.
— As for small tactical breaks, an hour here and an hour there, we’ve had them before. I assume that we will control the circumstances for goods, humanitarian goods, to be able to enter, or for individual hostages to be able to leave.
But he does not believe in any general ceasefire, he emphasizes.
— It will hamper our efforts to get our hostages out because the only thing that works on these criminals in Hamas is the military pressure that we apply.