Minister Gil'ad Erdan said, Monday, "The 'political platform' that Hamas published is a misrepresentation and a public relations exercise whose only purpose is to enlist international legitimacy. In practice, Hamas continually works to promote terror attacks and wild incitement calling for the murder of Israelis and continues to refuse to recognize Israel's right to exist."
Erdan warned, "The international community must not treat the Hamas platform as a change in the movement's policy, which is really operating every day to murder Jews and Israelis indiscriminately, while exploiting the civilian population in Gaza as human shields."