Israel National News reports: “The murderous terrorist organization Hamas has harshly criticized comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Fox News regarding Israel’s plans to take control of Gaza.

In the interview, Netanyahu was asked if Israel would take control of all of Gaza. He answered that ‘we intend to, in order to ensure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of [Hamas], and to pass it to civilian governance that is not Hamas and not anyone who seeks the destruction of Israel. We want to liberate ourselves and the people of Gaza from the awful terror of Hamas.’…

In response, Hamas issued a statement claiming that substantial progress had been made toward a ‘final agreement’ during recent negotiations. However, according to the statement, Netanyahu pulled out of the talks and exposed his true intentions.

The statement further accused Netanyahu of expanding Israel’s military campaign, asserting that he intended to ‘sacrifice the hostages for personal reasons and due to his extremist ideological agenda.’…”