Israeli PM Netanyahu vows ‘painful blows’ on Hamas to free hostages

Palestinian children sit next to the site of an Israeli strike on a house amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip/Photo: Reuters

TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, to “deliver additional and painful blows” on Hamas to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza.