Echoing the demand by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Israeli prime minister issued Hamas an ultimatum and threatened its “total defeat.”

“I think we will see something of biblical proportion happen with [Trump’s] leadership in the Middle East.”

“I do think he’ll take” in some of the Palestinians, “and I think other countries will take also,” the president said, referring to King Abdullah II of Jordan.

The redeployment was conducted as part of the implementation of the truce struck with Hamas in January.

Before their release, Hamas paraded the hostages in front of a raucous crowd of Palestinians in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.

Netanyahu cites scripture in addressing Israel’s reaction to Oct. 7, in White House press conference with Trump.

“That’s not good,” the president said about the Jewish state’s dimensions, adding that the country’s achievements have been “amazing.”

Since Jan. 21, IDF forces have been conducting intensive counter-terror operations in northern Samaria.

Hamas fired a total of 3,700 rockets into southern Israel in the first four hours of the assault, the largest single-day rocket attack in the Jewish state’s history.

“Yarden has returned home, but the home remains incomplete,” the family of Yarden Bibas said in a statement.