Israel is not “going to just sit there and wait” while Hamas rebuilds its capabilities while rejecting two plans presented by U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff for the release of remaining hostages, Tsach Saar, the deputy consul general of Israel in New York told Newsmax.

“It’s not a free ceasefire,” Saar told Wednesday’s “Wake Up America.” “We know they are preparing. We know that they are rebuilding their capabilities with the very specific goal of committing the atrocities of Oct. 7 again and again.”

Israeli strikes Wednesday killed at least five in the Gaza Strip, with Israel’s military reporting it targeted a Hamas military site in the north.

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