For now there is no talk of exchanging items hostages between Hamas e Israel but not even negotiations for a truce. Hamas immediately chilled the hopes not only of Tel Aviv but of the whole world of a rapid release of the hostages it took during Saturday's assault on Israel: "For now, no negotiations." Faced with terrorist intransigence, Israel thought it would respond harshly and the first thing it did was lay siege Gaza cutting off electricity, food and petrol. “We are fighting human animals and we will behave accordingly” declared the Israeli Defense Minister Gallant. During the night, however, "more than 500 targets of Hamas and Jihad terrorists" were hit by the Israelis.
But the prime minister directly took care of immediately extinguishing hopes of a truce Netanyahu than in a phone call with Joe Biden he essentially declined the American President's invitation to moderation, explaining to him bluntly that "this is not the time to negotiate". In other words, after the surprise defeat of the Hamas assault, Israel wants to teach the terrorists a lesson before negotiating.
