Netanyahu's Vow To Hamas 'Savages': 'We Will Obliterate Them, What We Are About To Do To Our Enemies Will Reverberate For Generations'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared intentions to obliterate Hamas as he metes out revenge for the deadly surprise attacks by the Palestinian militant group this weekend that saw hundreds of Israelis killed.

Netanyahu, who first came to power in Israel in 1996 and has served three separate terms, compared Hamas to the Islamic State group and said Israel planned to deploy 'unprecedented force' that would 'reverberate for generations'.

'We have only started striking Hamas,' Netanyahu, 73, said in a nationally televised address late last night.