Israel will not stop its military operation in the Gaza Strip until it completes its victory over the radical movement Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an address to the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, Paralel.Az reports citing TASS.

According to him, Hamas "has got to go." "Because if Hamas stays in power [in Gaza], it will regroup, rearm and attack Israel again, and again, and again," Netanyahu noted.

Hamas has to "surrender, lay down its arms and release all the hostages," Netanyahu stressed.

He said that the Israel Defense Forces had killed or captured more than half of Hamas’s 40,000 militants in Gaza, destroyed about 90% of their rocket arsenal and eliminated 23 out of Hamas’s 24 battalions. "We are winning," the Israel premier added.