‘The US has been terrific,’ says PM

Asked about reports that he had a strained conversation with US Ambassador Dan Shapiro this morning, in which he reportedly told the US not to “second guess” him on how to deal with Hamas, Netanyahu says: “I think the US has been terrific” and has “offered terrific support for Israel.”

He says that Hamas deliberately and premeditatedly breached the ceasefire that the US and UN had brokered on Friday morning.

The attack in which two soldiers were killed and Hadar Goldin kidnapped was “a pre-planned operation” involving a suicide bomber.

Netanyahu says that reports on the “tone and content” of his recent phone conversations with Obama and Shapiro were incorrect — “full of inaccuracies.”

Netanyahu calls on all responsible world leaders to stand with Israel.

“There is one one place for civilized, decent people to stand,” and that’s beside Israel, he says.