Netanyahu: Israeli army encircling Gaza City and there will be no ceasefire without hostage release

In a televised statement Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel's military is encircling Gaza City and operating inside it. He warned there would be "no ceasefire" without the release of hostages.

"As far as tactical little pauses, an hour here, an hour there, we’ve had them before," Israel's prime minister said.

"I suppose we’ll check the circumstances in order to enable goods, humanitarian goods, to come in, or hostages, individual hostages, to leave. But I don’t think there’s going to be a general ceasefire.”