Kirby suggests it's unlikely Hamas' ideology will be eliminated

White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby suggests that despite Israel’s war against Hamas, it's unlikely the group’s ideology will go away.

"What we have learned through our own experiences ... through military and other means, you can absolutely have a significant impact on [a] terrorist group's ability to resource itself, to train fighters, to recruit fighters, to plan and to execute attacks," Kirby said Thursday during a briefing. Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.

"I mean, look at the shadow of itself that ISIS is right now, look at the shadow of itself that al Qaeda is right now. That doesn't mean that the ideology also withers away and dies," he continued. "But you can absolutely have a practical, meaningful effect on a terrorist organization's ability to conduct and execute its attacks."