Khaberni - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered on Saturday that the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip will end after the implementation of the second phase of the existing truce, which includes the disarmament of Hamas.
Netanyahu said speaking to Channel 14 of Israel that "the second phase also involves the disarmament of Hamas, or more precisely, the disarmament from the Gaza Strip, after Hamas is stripped of its weapons."
He added, "When this is successfully completed - and we hope it will be done easily, and if not, then in a difficult way - then the war will end."
Netanyahu had earlier stated that the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt would remain closed until further notice and that its reopening would depend on the delivery of the bodies of the detainees by Hamas.
These statements came after the Palestinian embassy in Cairo announced the reopening of the Rafah border crossing starting Monday "to enable Palestinian residents in the Arab Republic of Egypt who wish to return to the Gaza Strip to travel."
Hamas later said that it had handed over the bodies of two of the Israeli detainees at 10:00 PM local time (19:00 GMT).
This means the delivery of 12 bodies out of 28 to Israel under the ceasefire agreement mediated by the United States between Israel and Hamas last week.
The dispute over the return of the bodies highlights the fragility of the ceasefire and threatens to obstruct the agreement along with other key issues listed in President Donald Trump's 20-point plan to end the war.
The agreement stipulates the release of all twenty living Israeli detainees held by Hamas for two years, in exchange for the release of about two thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons.
But Israel says that Hamas is delaying the delivery of the bodies of the detainees.
Hamas says that finding some of the bodies amidst the extensive destruction in Gaza takes time.
The ceasefire agreement also stipulates an increase in aid to the sector. A global hunger monitoring observatory said in August that hundreds of thousands of residents of the sector are suffering from famine.
