Netanyahu: If We Could Dismantle Hamas Terror Tunnels Diplomatically, We Would

NETANYAHU:  That first tunnel was struck from the air. We didn't know that it will achieve the result, and it’s very hard to achieve that result from the air. You either achieve it by agreement, or you achieve it by actually going into the other side, finding the points of origin of the tunnel, or a point of origin, identifying the trajectory of the tunnel, and then dismantling it, destroying it through various means. And that's basically what we did. If we could have done it diplomatically, fine. If not, we did it militarily. And the army just told us we completed this activity. And then we went out. We went in to deal with the tunnels, we went out after we finished dealing with the tunnels."