Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not agree to a deal that requires Israel to end the war before the destruction of Hamas despite international hopes that a bargain will avert a larger clash between the Jewish state and Iran.

“No,” Netanyahu told Time magazine. “And I think there’s a vast consensus in Israel that if we did that, we’ll just have a repetition. There’ll be future hostage taking, there’ll be a future October 7, and actually worse things that could happen.”