Netanyahu to Fox: Hamas leaders, including Sinwar, are in Gaza, “and we will reach them. Israel does not seek to occupy or control Gaza, nor to displace anyone. Anyone who believes that peace (normalization with Saudi Arabia) is dead is mistaken.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, during an interview with the American Fox network last night, that the war on Gaza is “progressing, and the Israeli army is working excellently,” and claimed that “we are doing everything we can to refrain from targeting civilians.”

He added in response to a question that Hamas leaders, including the movement's head in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, are in Gaza City or in the tunnels, and he said, "They are there and we will reach them." He added that Israel will continue the war until "Hamas collapses, and we are obligated to win. This will not be the victory of Israel alone, but the victory of the entire civilized world over barbarism."

Netanyahu considered that "Israel does not seek to occupy or control Gaza," claiming that the goal of the war is "to give the Gaza Strip and the entire Middle East a better future, and this requires defeating Hamas."

Netanyahu indicated that he had set goals and a timetable for the war. I would have liked it to take a short period of time, but we are progressing step by step, and in this way we are reducing the number of deaths among our soldiers and among those not involved in the fighting in Gaza, and we are eliminating the largest possible number of Hamas saboteurs. .

Netanyahu considered that it took a long time for the United States to be able to defeat Al-Qaeda and ISIS, “and I do not think that Israel will need this long of time, but we will make Hamas collapse and it does not matter how long that will take because our future, the future of neighboring countries, and the future of the Palestinians are linked to the side that Will he win this war - the terrorist axis of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, or the forces of progress and prosperity: Israel, the United States and the moderate Arab countries?

Netanyahu claimed, "Israel does not seek to displace anyone. We are trying to evacuate Gazans from the north of the Strip to the south, away from the war."

According to him, “The future of Gaza is clear. Hamas will not exist, the Strip will be demilitarized, will be subject to deradicalization, and will be reconstructed. All of these goals are achievable. We will be able to find (i.e. install) a civilian government to govern Gaza, but in the foreseeable future we have to make sure “In order not to repeat the events of October 7, and in order to prevent the emergence of an entity like Hamas, there is a need for a reliable force to enter the Gaza Strip and kill the killers.”

Netanyahu touched on the contacts that the United States was conducting regarding the agreement to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and said, “I believe that now is the hour of testing, but those who believe that peace is dead are mistaken. I believe that after the victory over Hamas, the conditions will be more ripe.”