Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely told the Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem on Tuesday that Mahmoud Abbas is responsible for the crisis in Gaza, playing politics with Hamas at the expense of the residents of Gaza. She said he is playing a game of survival instead of thinking about the future of his people.
Defending Israel's laws against the entry of those who support boycotts of the Jewish state, Hotovely said every democratic state is entitled to decide who will enter and who will not and that there is no reason to bring hostile elements into the country who act on behalf of boycotting and harm Israel.