"I want them all released," he added during an interview on Newsmax on Thursday. "We now have an agreement that is supposed to include half the living and half the dead."
He continued, "This will leave us with 10 living hostages and about 12 dead hostages, but I will work to bring them back as well. I hope we can conclude the agreement within a few days."
Netanyahu predicted that Israel and Hamas would reach a 60-day ceasefire, during which the war on the Gaza Strip could end.
With American support, Israel is waging a war of genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide left more than 195,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.
On Wednesday, Hamas said that the ongoing ceasefire talks have several key outstanding issues , including the flow of aid, the withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, and "providing real guarantees for a permanent ceasefire."
Netanyahu's interview came as he concluded his third visit to Washington since President Donald Trump took office in January.
Speaking about Trump, Netanyahu said that Israel had never had "such a friend, or such support for Israel, the Jewish state, in the White House."
The United States joined Israel in bombing Iran last month, a move Trump said "obliterated" three of Iran's nuclear sites. When asked about the damage assessment, Netanyahu said, "Within months, they would have been able to produce atomic bombs."
