Cabinet members holding back army from hitting Hamas, but they’re wrong, says Liberman

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman says there is no way to reach an agreement with the Hamas terror group to end months of border violence, but some cabinet members are holding from using military force to achieve this goal.

Liberman, who has repeatedly urged a strong blow against Hamas to convince the de facto rulers of Gaza to restore quiet along the border, clarifies that any such action would not include a ground operation.

His comments come after tensions along the restive border once again ramped up, following a weekend that saw heavy rocket fire on Israeli communities in the south and retaliatory strikes from the IDF, threatening to bring the sides back to the brink of war.

“I think that some of the cabinet members are captive to mistaken concepts, and we know where these roads lead to,” Liberman says at the opening of his Yisrael Beytenu party’s weekly faction meeting in the Knesset. “Anyone who is building on an agreement with Hamas is seriously mistaken.”

“We have enough means to restore the quiet and calm without a ground operation. Even if we kill all of the 40,000 Hamas and [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad activists, it is not worth losing a single Israeli soldier,” he adds.