Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government is determined to achieve absolute victory and will strike with all force, and will spare no effort to return the detainees in the Gaza Strip.

Netanyahu added that Hamas must be eliminated first before talking about the next day of the war.

The Israeli Prime Minister stressed that Israel "faces challenges that no modern army has faced, and must defend itself and not demand that from the Americans or others."

Netanyahu stated in an interview with an American Jewish journalist that if the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, surrenders and Hamas lays down its weapons, we will not mind exiling them from Gaza.

Netanyahu added, "We are studying the possibility of exiling the leadership of the Hamas movement, but that depends on their surrender."