Minister benjamin netanyahu what it would take to reach a new cease-fire and for israel to pull out of gaza. he s keeping his options open. we sat down at the defense ministry in tel aviv. your exit strategy from gaza is what? hamas forced it on us. they increased the fire. i called for de-escalation. they refused. i accepted an egyptian cease-fire proposal backed up by the arab league and u.n. they refused. i accepted a humanitarian lull proposed by the united nations. th they refused. we ll stop our operations when we can bring back quiet to our people. some of your cabinet ministers think the only way to do that is to reoccupy gaza, which you evacuated from and gave it up back in 2005. do you support reoccupying gaza? i support taking whatever action is necessary to stop this
Exploding. we ve just received information that the israeli army have shot with live ammunitions 25 palestinians who were peacefully protesting in hebron and two palestinians have been killed by the israeli army, one in jerusalem, also during a demonstration and another civilian palestinian was shot by the an israeli settler in hebron. and the number of people killed now in the west bank is increasing. not just in gaza. and the root of the problem is unfortunately overlooked by israeli ministers which is the fact that we are under occupation and solving the problem of occupation by increasing the occupation now and reoccupying gaza is not a solution. this would only complicate the matters further. and what is happening is totally unacceptable. trying to dehumanize palestinians and claim that they are inviting the israeli army to
Insane situation. just imagine, i mean, imagine what israel is going through. imagine that 75% of the u.s. population is under rocket fire and they have to be in bomb shelters within 60 to 90 seconds so i m not just talking about new york. new york, washington, chicago, detroit, san francisco, miami, you name it. that s impossible. you can t live like that. so i think we have to bring back, restore reasonable sustained quiet and security and we ll take whatever action is necessary to achieve that. that includes possibly reoccupying gaza? a lot of your military planners are afraid of what they would call a quagmire, a dangerous quagmire. nobody wants to go to extensive military lengths but a what is happening here is excessive. they are not only targeting our cities, they are deliberately firing thousands of rockets. they fired 2,000 rockets in the
We ll stop our operations when we can bring back quiet to our people. some of your cabinet ministers think the only way to do that is to reoccupy gaza, which you evacuated from and gave it up back in 2005. do you support reoccupying gaza? well, i support taking whatever action is necessary to stop this insane situation. just imagine. i mean, imagine what israel is going through. imagine that 75% of the u.s. population is under rocket fire and they have to be in bomb shelters within 60 to 90 seconds. so i m not just talking about new york. new york, washington, chicago, detroit, san francisco, miami. you name it. that s impossible. you can t live like that. so i think we have to bring back, restore back reasonable sustained quiet and security, and we ll take whatever action is necessary to achieve that. but that includes possibly reoccupying gaza?
And they have to be in bomb shelters within 60 to 90 seconds. so i m not just talking about new york. new york, washington, chicago, detroit, san francisco, miami, you name it. that s impossible. you can t live like that. so i think we have to bring back, restore reasonable sustained quiet and security, and we ll take whatever action is necessary to achieve that. but that includes possibly reoccupying gaza? because a lot of your military planners are afraid of what they would call a quagmire, a dangerous quagmire. nobody wants to go to excessive military hands but what is happening here is excessive. they re not only targeting our cities. they re deliberately firing thousands of rockets. they ve already fired 2,000 rockets in the last few days on our cities. you can imagine this. it s not only that, and they wanted to kill as many of our 6 million israelis who are targeted as they could. they haven t succeeded not for