TEL AVIV, November 10. /TASS/. There will be no ceasefire in Gaza until all Israeli hostages are free, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said.

"There will be no ceasefire without the return of hostages. We will take any action necessary for this," he pointed out at a press conference.

"Right now, there are [Israeli] children in the Gaza Strip. Some of them saw their own parents die in front of their eyes. Savages have kidnapped them and are holding them hostage. We will not stop fighting until we bring our children home," he noted.

"As a father, I wish to ask the whole world: what kind of father would stop searching for his children? I see these children as my own. I will not stop fighting and I will not stop searching for them, until I reach them," Gallant added.

Tensions in the Middle East flared up again after Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7. The Palestinian movement described its attack as a response to the actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Israel announced a total blockade of Gaza and started carrying out strikes on the Palestinian enclave, as well as on certain areas in Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also taking place in the West Bank.