The war against Hamas in Gaza isn’t over, because the Islamic terror group will not willingly give up its weapons, Israeli Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Avi Dichter said on Wednesday.

The blunt comments by the senior Israeli minister, a former head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and a member of the Security Cabinet, come amid increasing Israeli concerns regarding the second stage of the U.S.-brokered Gaza ceasefire plan.

“The war is not ended; it is a ceasefire to prepare ourselves [for] the next stage,” Dichter said in an address hosted by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. “If necessary, the ceasefire can be disappeared within minutes, as it was the other week,” he added, referring to the Israeli military retaliation following the lethal Hamas

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