Following the weekend's Gaza rocket fire on Sderot, Minister Ze'ev Elkin has told public radio on Monday that "if its policy is continued, it is Hamas that will pay the price."

According to the Likud Knesset member, "[Blue and White Chairman Benny] Gantz is deluding the Israeli public, as are [Yisrael Betenu's Avigdor] Lieberman, [Blue and White's Moshe] Ya'alon and [the Democratic Union's Yair] Golan, that they have a patent for a dramatic change that will bring quiet, when they were in key positions, when they served in recent years, they advocated the same policy [as the government]."