Jerusalem, Oct. 30 -- Following ceasefire violations by Hamas including failure to return the remains of dead Israeli hostages, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an address to the newly commissioned IDF officers, said Jerusalem "has more work" to do in the Gaza Strip.

"If Hamas continues to explicitly violate the ceasefire, it will suffer powerful attacks like it did two days ago and yesterday," Netanyahu said in his address at the Bahad 1 officers' school in southern Israel on Wednesday, as per state media.

The PM continued: "We decide, and we are acting whenever necessary to remove immediate threats from our forces."He reiterated his pledge to demilitarise the war-ravaged enclave, and force the terror group to lay down its a...