We are serious and willing to go ahead and achieve peace for both Israel and the Palestinians.

The withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is basically unilateral and Israel has not fully coordinated everything in the withdrawal with the Palestinian side. This is why we will not attend.

The truce is dead. By continuing its assassinations and occupation, Israel killed it long before it actually expired. The formula is bombardment for bombardment and targeting civilians for targeting civilians.

One of our strategies is to move rockets to the West Bank to meet the coming year with more violent resistance.

If they (Israeli soldiers) managed to reach them, they could arrest them instead of killing them, and Israel knows very well that killing them would threaten the current calmness and escalate violence.

Israel's having no alternative to peace implies Israel cannot survive without peace.