Benjamin Netanyahu has warned “all hell” will break loose if Hamas doesn’t agree to disarm.
It comes after Donald Trump warned “if they [Hamas] don’t disarm, we will disarm them, and it will happen quickly and perhaps violently”.
“We agree to give peace a chance,” Israel’s prime minister told CBS News.
Netanyahu was asked what it would take for him to declare the war in Gaza as being over, and said: “I think that, for the foreseeable future, not only for Israel but for the free world, and for the civilised world, you have to maintain your ability to defend yourself, because freedom is not permanent, nor is it automatic.
“If you cannot defend free societies, they will be overtaken by authoritarian or totalitarian regimes.”
