Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urges Middle Eastern nations to back Israel against Hamas after the U.N. adopts President Donald Trump’s peace plan.

Mughrabi TEL AVIV/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for Hamas to be expelled from the region, a day after the U.N. Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump's plan to end the war that offers the Palestinian militant group amnesty.

In the 20-point plan, and in any other case, this area will be demilitarized and Hamas will be disarmed — either the easy way or the hard way,” the Israeli PM said in his weekly cabinet

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Netanyahu urges regional partners to expel Hamas from Gaza, signaling a rift with the US-backed UN plan that controversially offers amnesty and safe passage instead of expulsion, despite Israel's prior support for the framework.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted Gaza’s Hamas-controlled areas will be demilitarised, rejecting claims that the ceasefire leaves the group armed. Speaking in Jerusalem, he said Hamas disarmament “will happen the easy way or the hard way,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is finally willing to start investigating the worst attack in Israel's history, which sparked the war in Gaza.