Israel’s prime minister has said that “we in the coming days will be entering with all our strength to complete the process […] to subdue Hamas,” Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported according to Al Jazeera.

“It could be that Hamas will say ‘Pause, we want to release another 10 hostages’,” Netanyahu said while meeting Israeli wounded soldiers, adding that in that case they would stop and enter afterwards.

“But there will not be a situation where we stop the war,” he added.

Netanyahu also reiterated previous claims that his government had established an agency to oversee a transfer plan for Gaza’s population.

“But there is one problem, we need countries to receive them. This is what we are working on right now,” he added.

“If you give them an exit, I am telling you that more than 50 per cent will leave, in my opinion, many more.”