"The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed. And when I say disarming Hamas, it means the heavy weapons, the less heavy weapons, and the light weapons, all the weapons," Netanyahu said in a statement. 

DW's Tania Krämer says that Netanyahu is sending a message to his own constituency. She also points out that the situation for the people in Gaza remains unchanged, despite a ceasefire agreementbeing in place for many months.