By Paul Adams in Jerusalem, Anthony Zucher in Tel Aviv & Graeme Baker BBC News
Israel has rebuffed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call for a “humanitarian pause” in Gaza.
Mr Blinken said he had discussed the idea with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials during their talks in Tel Aviv.
But in a TV statement minutes later, Mr Netanyahu said Israel rejected “a temporary ceasefire that does not include the release of our hostages”.
He said that Israel was “continuing with all our force” against Hamas.
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What gave you that idea? OP was merely observing that Hamas governing Gaza has caused the Gazan people a lot of pain. During ww2, almost 10% of the Germans died, one way another. The Nazis caused much pain and destruction to Europe, but also to the German people (which admittedly does have similarities to Hamas now).