Hamas leaders may be saying that they’d be willing to agree to a five-year cease-fire in exchange for keeping their political power, but Israel will never agree to a pact that does not dismantle Hamas or return the 133 hostages still in Gaza more than six months after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks, Tal Heinrich, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Newsmax on Sunday.

“We [made] a decision as a nation when we defined the war objectives,” Heinrich said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “We said that we want to bring every hostage back home. There’s not going to be leaving of anyone behind.”

Israel also swore to dismantle Hamas and to make sure that “Gaza will never pose a terror threat to us again,” she said.

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