On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed US President Joe Biden that Tel Aviv will not end the war on the Gaza Strip before achieving all its goals.

This came during a phone call that Biden made with Netanyahu, according to the private Hebrew Channel 12, the day after Tel Aviv received Hamas’ response to the proposal to exchange prisoners and ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The channel said, "Netanyahu told Biden, during their phone conversation on Thursday, that Tel Aviv will not end the war on the Gaza Strip before achieving all its goals."

On more than one occasion, Netanyahu set three goals for the war on the Gaza Strip: eliminating Hamas, releasing Israeli detainees in Gaza, and ensuring that Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel’s security, while none of them were achieved despite the passage of about 9 months.

The talk by the two sides comes after the same channel quoted, earlier Thursday, an unnamed Israeli political source, saying that Netanyahu agreed to send the negotiating delegation regarding the proposed prisoner exchange discussions with Hamas, without specifying the country hosting the discussions that usually take place in Doha or Cairo. .

On Wednesday, Israel announced that it had received, through Egyptian and Qatari mediators, Hamas’ response to the truce proposal, while the two parties did not disclose the content of the movement’s response, but Hebrew media quoted Israeli sources on Thursday as saying that the response serves as a basis for resuming negotiations.

On Thursday morning, the families of Israeli prisoners in Gaza vowed to organize “million” demonstrations if the Netanyahu government thwarted a prisoner exchange deal that began to loom on the horizon with the Palestinian factions in the Strip.

With the mediation of Qatar, Egypt, and the United States, which provides absolute support to Tel Aviv, the Palestinian factions in Gaza and Israel have been conducting faltering indirect negotiations for months, to reach an agreement to exchange prisoners and stop the war on Gaza.