"We will continue the war until we achieve all our war aims: To eliminate Hamas, return all our hostages and missing persons and ensure that there is no element in Gaza that threatens Israel," Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
"Citizens of Israel, we are at war. Not an operation not an escalation- at war," Netanyahu said in a video posted on X. "We are at war and we will win," he asserted in a video statement according to translation provided by Reuters.