"I'd ask you the following question: In Gaza we pulled out, we redeployed behind the 1967 line, which is, from the international community's point, the recognised border.
"If we can't defend that border, what border would you have us defend?"
Earlier in the interview, he said: "I don't want to see any innocent person caught up in the crossfire between us and Hamas."
He called the border fence a "combat situation" where "hundreds if not thousands of people, brought in by Hamas, paid for Hamas, are storming the border fence, trying to break it down"
When Ms Husain asked if Israeli forces should arrest people, he said: "We do arrest people when we can. But I think if you look at the film from those violent riots... It's clearly orchestrated by Hamas. The goal, as articualted by Hamas, is to break in and kill our people."
