Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasn’t developed a strategy to prevent the return of Hamas following large-scale military operations in Gaza, according to senior U.S. and Israeli officials.

“Any military operation … has got to be connected to a strategic end game that also answers the question ‘What comes next?’ And that’s something that we’re really bearing in on with the Israeli government,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters Monday afternoon. “We want an outcome in which the page gets turned from Hamas’s terroristic reign over Gaza and a better future comes for the Palestinian people and for the security of the state of Israel.”