In that sense, the offer is familiar, and it is one that Hamas has repeatedly rejected over the course of the war. Israel has said for most of the past two years that the war could end tomorrow if Hamas returned the hostages, disarmed and went into exile. The new approach also makes no meaningful, immediate offer of Palestinian statehood, a goal much of the world supports. Coalition ministers to his right want to annex both Gaza and the West Bank, which the plan spurns. The war in Gaza began almost two years ago when thousands of Hamas operatives swarmed into Israel, killing 1200 people and abducting 250.