Rescuers carry an injured man from a destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. AP
"Let me be clear: We still have objectives to complete, and we will achieve them, either through agreement or through renewed fighting," Netanyahu said in a televised statement.
Netanyahu also hit back at opposition leaders who chastised him for agreeing to the truce before Israel achieved its "objectives" in the war.
"As you know, last night a temporary two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran came into effect, in full coordination with Israel," Netanyahu said in a televised statement.
Netanyahu had set the elimination or at least severe degradation of Iran's nuclear programme as a central goal of the war, describing it as an "existential threat" to Israel.
He had also hoped to degrade Iran's ballistic missile capabilities, weaken or potentially topple the Iranian regime, and curb Tehran's regional influence by targeting its network of allied groups.
In his televised statement, Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in Tel Aviv's genocidal war on Gaza, listed what he claimed were the war's achievements.
"We destroyed not only existing missiles, but also the factories that produce them. Iran is now firing what remains in its stockpile and that stockpile is steadily dwindling," he said.
"We have severely damaged Iran's nuclear programme, destroying critical infrastructure and centrifuge facilities," he said, adding that Israel would ensure that the enriched uranium is removed from Iran.
He also boasted that the Israeli military campaign had also hit Iran's civilian infrastructures, including steel plants, petrochemical complexes, and transport infrastructure, a war crime under international law.
Netanyahu also hailed Israel's cooperation with the United States in the war on Iran.
"Together, we launched a historic operation, the largest the Middle East has ever seen," he said.
"Such a partnership between Israel and the United States against our greatest enemy is also unprecedented."
He spoke as the Israeli occupation army carried out tens of airstrikes on residential buildings in Beirut and across Lebanon, causing widespread death and destruction.
The Lebanese Civil Defence reported that at least 254 people were killed and 1,165 wounded in the intensive Israeli airstrikes on Beirut and the rest of the country since the afternoon.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, claimed "the campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon" would continue, saying he had insisted that the ceasefire with Iran would not include the Lebanese group.
Prime Minister of Lebanon Nawaf Salam has accused Israel of killing unarmed civilians in Lebanon and attacking densely populated areas.
In a post of X, Salam wrote: "Whilst we welcomed the agreement between Iran and the United States, and stepped up our efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, Israel continues to escalate its attacks, which have targeted densely populated residential neighbourhoods and claimed the lives of unarmed civilians across Lebanon, particularly in the capital, Beirut, showing no regard for regional and international efforts to end the war, let alone the principles of international law and international humanitarian law, which it has never respected in the first place."
In tandem, Parliament Speaker Nabi Berri called it "war of extermination against Lebanon."
"Faced with the continued aggression of the Israeli killing and destruction machine in its war of extermination against Lebanon, the most heinous aspect of which was the brutal air assault targeting Beirut, its southern suburbs, large areas of the Bekaa Valley and Mount Lebanon, Sidon, and several villages in southern Lebanon, resulting in the martyrdom and injury of hundreds of civilians, including dozens of children, women, and elderly people, in densely populated neighborhoods and buildings, this constitutes a full-fledged war crime."
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