Delaying the prisoner release is an "appropriate response", Al Jazeera quoted a statement from National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes as saying.
Speaking to cadets graduating from the IDF Ground Forces combat officers course, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns that Israel is "ready to return at any moment to intensive combat. The operational plans are ready," The Times of Israel reported.
"We demand the full demilitarization of southern Syria," said Netanyahu, who was addressing a graduation ceremony for cadet officers in Beer-Sheva. "We will not tolerate any threat to the Druze community in southern Syria."
In a major shocker, Israel on Friday said, citing forensic reports that the Bibas brothers, whose corpses were returned by Hamas, were killed with "bare hands" by Hamas days after they were held captive in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday mourned the deaths of four-year-old Ariel Bibas, his one-year-old brother Kfir, and 84-year-old Oded Lifshitz, whose bodies were returned by Hamas on Thursday.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slams the "unspeakable cynicism" of Hamas after Israeli forensic authorities determined that the body handed over yesterday, which Hamas said was of Shiri Bibas, the mother of the two young children that were taken hostage, is not her.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military to conduct operations in the occupied West Bank after three empty buses exploded in a suspected terror attack near Tel Aviv on Thursday
Israel on Thursday received the remains of four deceased hostages through the Red Cross. The coffins, transferred by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and ISA forces from the Gaza Strip, arrived in Israel.
Israel on Wednesday said that it has received the list of deceased hostages set to be released tomorrow. Following this, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed deep sorrow, acknowledging that the day will be incredibly difficult for the country, as Israel prepares to bring home four dec
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday instructed the immediate enforcement of the UNRWA law, which was passed by the Knesset with broad support.