Israel's defence minister on Thursday told a top US official that the fight with Hamas in Gaza would "last more than several months", according to his office.
"It will require a period of time -- it will last more than several months, but we will win and we will destroy them," Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said as he met US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, who is visiting Israel, the minister's office said.
Israel's ambassador to Britain said Thursday that Israel would not accept a two-state solution with the Palestinians after the war with Hamas in Gaza ends.
The conflict, now in its third month, began after the Palestinian group's unprecedented October 7 attacks on Israel that Israeli officials say killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
In response, Israel began a relentless bombardment and ground invasion that has killed 18,608 people, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry's latest toll.
Tzipi Hotovely told Sky News that she did not believe in the long-standing position of the UK government and the United Nations that an independent Palestinian state should be established.
"The answer is absolutely no," Hotovely said when pressed on the issue.
"Israel knows today, and the world should know now that the reason the Oslo Accords failed is because the Palestinians never wanted to have a state next to Israel.
"They want to have a state from the river to the sea," she added.
The Oslo Accords, signed between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) in 1993 aimed to bring "peaceful coexistence" to Israel and the Palestinians.
The agreement was based on UN resolutions that said the Palestinian people had the right to self-determination.
"Why are you obsessed with a formula (the two-state solution) that never worked, that created this radical people on the other side," Hotovely added.
She said the Palestinian Authority had still not condemned Hamas's attack.
"It's now two months after the war started. It's such a big problem."
UK Prime Minister Sunak said in response that he didn't agree with Hotovely's remarks.
"Our long standing position is that the two state solution remains the right outcome here," he told reporters.
Sunak said he had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that his country "must take every available precaution to protect innocent civilian lives".
Israel said Thursday that suspects arrested in Denmark were "acting on behalf of the Hamas" militant group after Danish authorities said they foiled a "terror" attack.
Danish security forces "arrested seven terrorists acting on behalf of the Hamas terrorist organisation, and thwarted an attack, the goal of which was to kill innocent civilians on European soil," a statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.
Danish authorities had earlier said three suspects were arrested there.
