Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that according to recent assessments of the ongoing Hamas war, the conflict could continue into 2025, N12 reported on Wednesday.

[Perhaps, but Netanyahu won’t. He has become deeply unpopular, and is holding his position at the moment because the war cabinet likely wants stability and for Netanyahu to take the blame for unpopular-but-necessary strategic decisions. Time will run out on that political strategy well before the end of the year. Plus, Israelis may not be keen to have hundreds of thousands of reservists mobilized for that long. They will fight until Hamas is effectively destroyed in Gaza, but they expect that to happen a lot sooner than a year from now. — Ed]