Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ministers during a meeting of the political-security cabinet on Friday that "we received absolute guarantees from Biden and Trump that if negotiations on the second phase fail and Hamas does not agree to our security demands, we will return to fighting with great force with the support of the United States," according to what Israeli media reported.

The incoming US President, Donald Trump, and the outgoing President, Joe Biden, pledged to Israel that they would agree to resume the war on Gaza if Hamas “violated” the ceasefire agreement, rearmed again, or resumed armed operations in Gaza, according to the newspaper “Israel Hayom.”

The newspaper quoted a senior Israeli official as saying that those close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are not providing this information to the public for fear that publishing it will push Hamas to withdraw from the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement.

The newspaper added, quoting an official in Washington, who considered that "the pledges are clear and decisive, and without them Netanyahu would not have adopted the deal, and professional officials would not have recommended approving the agreement."

According to the newspaper, last night there was a major development regarding the conditions of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who opposes the agreement, and that Netanyahu agreed to a large part of these conditions, and that there are still details that must be agreed upon.

The newspaper added that Smotrich "also demanded that what was said to him behind closed doors be expressed by Netanyahu in the cabinet meeting," and that the indications so far are that Smotrich will remain in the government until the end of the first stage of the agreement.

Smotrich announced yesterday that if his condition to resume the war after the end of the first stage of the agreement is not met, he will resign and the Religious Zionism Party will withdraw from the government.

A government minister told the newspaper that after the understandings, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir will resign and Smotrich will remain, and that he believes Ben-Gvir will resign now, but there is a possibility that he will return to the government later. "Under the understandings with Trump, Israel can return to war."