Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that the Israeli state will have to maintain a "strong force" in Gaza in the near future, to prevent Hamas from reappearing in the Gaza Strip after the end of the war, but US President Joe Biden warned that occupying the Gaza Strip would be a "big mistake."

Herzog said in an interview with the Financial Times newspaper on Thursday: "If we withdraw, who will take responsibility? We cannot leave a vacuum. We have to think about what the mechanism will be. There are many ideas proposed. But no one wants this place, Gaza, to become a base for terrorism again."

He added to the newspaper that the Israeli government is discussing many ideas about ways to manage the Gaza Strip once the war ends, noting that it is assumed that the United States and "our neighbors in the region" will have some involvement in the system that will be put in place after the conflict period.

Biden said on Wednesday that he made it clear to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the two-state solution is the only way to resolve the conflict, and that occupying the Gaza Strip would be a "big mistake."

The Palestinian Authority says that the Gaza Strip, which has been governed by Hamas since 2007, is "an integral part of the future Palestinian state."

While Israel has pledged to eliminate Hamas, it has not presented a detailed plan to determine who will govern the Gaza Strip after the war, and Netanyahu said that Israel will have to assume security responsibility in the Gaza Strip for an indefinite period.