Netanyahu: 'No choice' but to complete defeat of Hamas

(JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday that Israel does not seek to stay in Gaza, but to replace the Hamas regime with an expanded mialitary operation, and insisted that was the best way to bring the war to a speedy conclusion.

“Our goal is not to occupy Gaza but to free Gaza,” Netanyahu said at a press conference for foreign media. “But no one is going to go in there unless we finish the job and finish Hamas.”

He noted that Hamas still has thousands of armed terrorists after nearly two years of war in about a quarter of the coastal strip and declared that Israe...