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Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/netanyahu-abcs-muir-cease-fire-release-hostages/story?id=104661239
Netanyahu: No Cease-Fire without Release of Hostages
(ABC News) Alexandra Hutzler - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ABC News on Monday: "There will be no cease-fire, general cease-fire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages. As far as tactical little pauses, an hour here, an hour there. We've had them before....But I don't think there's going to be a general cease-fire. I think it will hamper the war effort. It'll hamper our effort to get our hostages out because the only thing that works on these criminals in Hamas is the military pressure that we're exerting." Netanyahu added, "I think Israel will, for an indefinite period, have the overall security responsibility [over Gaza] because we've seen what happens when we don't have it. When we don't have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn't imagine." National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, "What we support is that Hamas can't be in control of Gaza anymore. We can't go back to Oct. 6. We are having conversations with our Israeli counterparts about what governance in Gaza should look like post-conflict."