The Israeli military will resume its operations in Gaza "with full force" in the coming days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday. "Completing the operation means defeating Hamas. It means destroying Hamas,

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israeli forces will enter Gaza with "full force" in the coming days, adding that there was "no way" Israel would stop the war. In comments released by his office on Tuesday,

Alexander, the last remaining American-Israeli hostage in Gaza, was held captive in the strip for more than 19 months.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would normally celebrate a hostage release such as that taking place on Monday, though in this case the deal with Hamas is another sign US President Donald Trump is starting to make decisions without him.

It was the first such admission from Netanyahu since the families of the hostages began demanding answers when his wife was caught on hot mic last week saying fewer than the 24 were still alive.

Netanyahu was blindsided — and infuriated — this past week by Trump’s announcement that the U.S. was halting its military campaign against the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen after the Houthis agreed to stop firing on U.S. ships in the Red Sea, according to one of the U.S. officials and the two Middle East diplomats.

Hamas has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's assertion that military pressure played a role in securing the release of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander from Gaza. In a statement released on Tuesday,

Israeli Consul General in New York Ofir Akunis argued that Gaza could one day emerge in the style of the United Arab Emirates, a nation whose coastal desert cities, including Duba