Israel has outlined its vision for Gaza when the war ends, but says first it must continue its campaign to eradicate Hamas.

Defence minister Yoav Gallant revealed Israel’s “day-after plan”, which would be the fourth and supposed final stage of the war.

It outlines a future in which Hamas is destroyed and the Palestinian people rule the Gaza Strip.

The militant group Hamas would have no control and would no longer “pose a security threat to the citizens of Israel”.

“Gaza residents are Palestinian, therefore Palestinian bodies will be in charge, with the condition that there will be no hostile actions or threats against the state of Israel,” Gallant’s office said on Thursday (local time).

Gallant said Israel would also have no civilian presence in the Gaza Strip.

But Israel would maintains its “operational freedom of action” and continue to “carry out the inspection of goods entering the Gaza strip”.

However, before the “day after” came into play, Gallant said Israel must complete the destruction of Hamas.

This was the “third phase” of the war of involving “raids, the destruction of terror tunnels, aerial and ground activities, and special operations”.

The focus in the south would be on rescuing 132 remaining Israeli hostages.

Blinken’s Middle East mission

Meanwhile US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and EU senior diplomat Josep Borrell have begun a diplomatic push to stop spillover from the Gaza war.

Blinken is due to visit the West Bank during a week-long tour starting on Friday (local time) in Turkey, which has offered to mediate.

He will also visit Israel, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

“It is in no one’s interest, not Israel’s, not the region’s, not the world’s, for this conflict to spread beyond Gaza,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.

Borrell, the European Union foreign policy chief, was due in Lebanon.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said the US should focus on ending aggression towards Palestinians and occupation of their land.

“We hope that Mr Blinken learned lessons from the past three months and realised the extent of the mistakes the US has made by blindly supporting the Zionist occupation and believing its lies, which resulted in unprecedented massacres and war crimes against our people in Gaza,” he said in a speech.

The leader of Lebanon’s powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, said on Friday the militia had conducted about 670 military operations on the border with Israel since October 8, destroying many Israeli military vehicles.

Israel has listed 175 soldiers as killed in action since its offensive began.

A 25th hostage had been declared dead, the Israeli government said on Friday.

-with AAP