Far-right ministers in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition have rejected the possibility of a broader hostage-for-prisoner release deal with Hamas, as talks continue in Qatar over extending the temporary truce in Gaza, Financial times reports.

Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister, wrote on social media platform X, “Not on the agenda, not even as a suggestion. There is no discussion about it at all.”

He continued: “This is a plan to eliminate the State of Israel. We continue until absolute victory, God willing, and the destruction of the Nazis of Hamas.”

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, wrote: “Stopping the war = dissolution of the government.”

Meeting Israeli troops inside Gaza, Netanyahu said: “We are continuing until the end — until victory. Nothing will stop us.”