Palestinian girls walk at a makeshift displacement camp set up amid building rubble in Gaza City. AFP
"In the very coming days, we are going in with full force to complete the operation. Completing the operation means defeating Hamas. It means destroying Hamas," Netanyahu said during a meeting with injured reserve soldiers in his office late Monday.
"There will be no situation where we stop the war. A temporary ceasefire might happen, but we are going all the way," he added.
Last week, the Israeli security cabinet approved plans to expand the military attacks, including the "conquest" of Gaza and the forcibly displacement of its population.
Israel's military said the planned broader operation, which has drawn international condemnation, would include displacing most residents of the Palestinian territory.
Nearly all of the Gaza Strip's 2.4 million people have been displaced at least once during Israel's genocidal war.
Israel has pushed for Palestinians to leave Gaza, with a senior security official claiming that a "voluntary transfer programme... will be part of the operation's goals".
Israeli ministers have seized on a proposal initially floated by US President Donald Trump for the voluntary departure of Gazans to neighbouring countries.
Cairo and Amman, along with other Arab allies, governments around the world and the Palestinians themselves, have flatly rejected the proposal.
Israel unilaterally resumed its war on Gaza on March 18, shattering a two-month ceasefire. Ground troops have seized more than half the territory and have been conducting raids and searching parts of northern Gaza and the southernmost city of Rafah. Large parts of both areas have been flattened by months of Israeli brutal operations.
Israel also imposed a total blockade on aid and food on March 2 which international relief agencies described as cruel, inhumane and illegal.
On Monday, the UN- and NGO-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said Gaza is at "critical risk of famine", with 22 percent of the population facing an imminent humanitarian "catastrophe" after more than two months of an aid blockade by Israel.
More than 20 independent United Nations experts said the world faced a "stark decision" to "remain passive and witness the slaughter of innocents or take part in crafting a just resolution".
The Israeli genocidal war launched on October 7 has killed at least 52,908 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to data from the Gaza health ministry, which is considered reliable by the UN.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online
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