(Prime Minister's Office) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday: "Israel is doing what any country would do if terrorists rained down rockets on its cities and towns - hundreds of rockets, day after day, week after week. In addition, as I've shown you, Hamas has dug terrorist tunnels under hospitals, mosques, schools, homes, to penetrate our territory, to kidnap and kill Israelis." "The international community must take a clear stand; it must hold Hamas accountable for consistently rejecting the cease-fire proposals and for starting and prolonging this conflict." "The international community must hold Hamas accountable for its increasing and indiscriminate attacks on Israeli civilians." "And the international community must hold Hamas accountable for using Palestinian civilians as human shields, deliberately putting them in harm's way." "The international community has pressed us to give cement to Gaza to build schools, hospitals, homes. And now we see what has happened to those deliveries of cement. They have been used to dig tunnels...that penetrate our territory so that Hamas can blow up our kindergartens and murder our children."
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