Palestinian demonstrators burn pictures of Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman in front of the house of Ismail Haniyeh, the Head of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, in Gaza on November 14, 2018. (AFP photo)

JERUSALEM, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigned from the government on Wednesday, reiterating that the government lacks hard hand against Gaza's Hamas.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to go toward a long-term cease-fire agreement with Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist group that runs Gaza, was "caving in to terror," Lieberman said in a broadcast press conference.

He criticized the government's decision to agree to halt a two-day airstrike in Gaza in order to stop barrages of rockets from Gaza at southern Israel, instead of launching a fully-fledged war against Gaza.

He urged the government to dissolve the parliament and go to early elections as soon as possible.

The resignation will come into effect in 48 hours.