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Ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said over the weekend that Netanyahu had "no mandate" to end the war without "a decisive defeat of Hamas".

Ultranationalist ministers have called for Israel to annex the West Bank outright as a response.

Smotrich, leader of Israel's Religious Zionist party, is an ultranationalist who has been sanctioned by the UK and other countries over repeated incitements of violence against Palestinians.

Hours earlier, Smotrich - an ultranationalist leader and settler who has control over planning in the West Bank - told a news conference in Jerusalem that "the time has come" for annexation.

Smotrich, an ultranationalist leader and settler who oversees the Civil Administration, said: "The Palestinian state is being erased from the table, not with slogans but with actions."