Netanyahu said that, " As long as I am prime minister, no Palestinian state will be established." ”“And when I say disarm Hamas, that means heavy weapons, less-heavy weapons, all weapons.

And we are talking about real disarmament, not a fictitious disarmament,” Netanyahu added. “We are now discussing this with the Americans.

They have ideas, some of which are acceptable to us and some are not, and we know how to stand up to those things,” he said. “As long as I am prime minister, no Palestinian state will be established — not in Gaza and not in the West Bank,” Netanyahu said.

US President Donald Trump had announced at the end of July what he described as a historic agreement aimed at securing the disarmament of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. The announcement came months after Trump first unveiled a US-brokered ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

Hamas, however, has said it would agree to the next stage only if Israel stops its strikes in Gaza and withdraws its troops to the “yellow line” set out under the October ceasefire agreement.