Two days after U.S. President Joe Biden laid out what he called an Israeli proposal to end its war on Hamas, it’s clear that key aspects of the deal have not, in fact, been embraced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

As the war in Gaza approaches its eighth month, the impasse between Israel and Hamas over exchanging hostages for prisoners remains unchanged: Israel will pause fighting but not end it as long as Hamas’ governing and military structures remain intact, while Hamas will free hostages only if it’s guaranteed a permanent cease-fire.

Biden said Israel has battered Hamas enough to prevent it from carrying out another attack like the one on Oct. 7, when it killed some 1,200 Israelis and took 250 hostages, and that the time has come to end the war, free the hostages and start to rebuild the badly destroyed Gaza Strip.

“They don’t have the military capabilities to do what they did on the seventh of October,” John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House, said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Militarily, “the Israelis have accomplished most of their goals in Gaza,” he said.

Netanyahu’s government says preventing another Oct. 7 — the worst massacre in the country’s history — is the wrong criterion. Its position remains that Hamas, considered a terrorist group by the U.S. and European Union, must be deprived of any aggressive capacity and that Israel won’t stop until that’s been achieved.

Biden laid out a three-phase plan on Friday that he said was Israel’s: a six-week truce involving hostage-prisoner exchanges and increased aid, followed by a focus on a permanent cease-fire and the removal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and, finally, major reconstruction.

Hamas said it welcomed any proposal “based on a permanent cease-fire” as well as “a total withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.”

Israeli officials say the plan they’ve agreed to doesn’t include a permanent cease-fire and Netanyahu issued two statements over the weekend contradicting Biden.

In the first statement, Netanyahu said he’d authorized his negotiators to present a proposal aimed at returning the 100-plus hostages remaining in Gaza, but which “would also enable Israel to continue the war until all its objectives are achieved, including the destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities.”

The second statement was more pointed: “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: the destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat.”

The idea that Israel would agree to a permanent cease-fire before those conditions are fulfilled “is a non-starter,” the statement added.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday that Israel is working on an alternative to Hamas rule in Gaza that involves isolating areas to remove Hamas operatives and introducing forces that will allow the building of an alternative government.

White House officials told reporters on Saturday that Netanyahu’s comments were related to domestic politics and part of an effort to appease his right-wing flank.