SpaceWar.com reports: “Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Hamas on Monday with unimaginable consequences if it did not return hostages held in Gaza, while the Palestinian group accused his government of sabotaging the fragile truce there.

The first phase of the ceasefire ended over the weekend, but talks on its future have hit an impasse after six weeks of relative calm in the Gaza Strip that included exchanges of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners and an influx of badly needed aid…

Netanyahu, speaking Monday in the Israeli parliament, warned Hamas ‘there will be consequences that you cannot imagine’ if the dozens of hostages still held by militants were not released.

Defence Minister Israel Katz later struck a similar tone, saying if the group did not free the hostages, ‘the gates of Gaza will be locked, and the gates of hell will open’.

As the truce’s first phase came to a close, Netanyahu’s office had announced Israel was halting ‘all entry of goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip’ and that Hamas would face ‘other consequences’ if it did not accept the truce extension…”