“Everything will depend on Hamas,” Intelligence Services Minister Israel Katz said at the meeting.
Ministers in the security cabinet said Wednesday that they were not aware of an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire agreement between Israel and militant groups operating out of the Gaza Strip. “We haven’t reached an agreement with Hamas, not even an informal agreement,” Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Bayit Yehudi) said outside a school he visited in kibbutz Kfar Aza. “We will act according to Israel’s interests. What the other side decides will determine its fate.”
