Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that ministers voted overnight to ramp up military pressure on Hamas, claiming the tactics were “working” to secure a deal for the hostages held in Gaza. “It works because it acts simultaneously,” he said at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. “On one hand, it crushes Hamas’s military and governmental capabilities, and on the other, it creates the conditions for the release of our hostages.” The security cabinet's vote came as mass protests c