Hamas rejects three proposals for a humanitarian truce within one day, Israeli government officials say: The first time on Saturday night, at 8 p.m., after Israel agreed to extend an existing 12-hour humanitarian ceasefire.
The terrorist group then refused for a second time when Israel subsequently agreed to hold fire for 24 hours. And now, on Sunday after 2 p.m., for a third time it breaks a ceasefire it itself asked for, the sources say.
Israel was ready to agree in each of these cases, they say.
“They’re violating even their own ceasefire,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Hamas is simply continuing its operations, and Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it’s convenient for them and not convenient of them… We’ll do whatever is necessary to protect our people.”
— Raphael Ahren
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