Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in an address to Israel’s parliament – the Knesset – on Monday, declared that the Israel-Gaza war “has not ended.”
“Those who seek to do us harm are re-arming,” he said. “They did not give up their aim of destroying us.”
Netanyahu said Hamas “will be disarmed” and “Gaza will be demilitarized.”
“It will either happen the easy way, or it will happen the hard way,” he continued. “But it will happen.”
According to ABC News, four deceased hostages are believed to remain inside Gaza following Sunday’s return of the body of Hadar Goldin, an Israeli soldier killed in the 2014 Gaza war.
Israeli authorities are releasing the bodies of Palestinians in exchange for the return of hostage remains.
As of Saturday, Israel had returned 300 Palestinian bodies to Gaza, of which only 89 have been identified, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The ceasefire is broadly holding in Gaza. Elsewhere, Israel is continuing strikes on what it says are Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
