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Donald Trump promises a “true hell” if Hamas does not release hostages until Saturday at noon. Hamas, which is breaking the agreement, considered that the US President’s threats will further complicate the situation.
O Hamas announced on Monday that it was indefinitely the next hostage scheduled for Saturday, accusing Israel of multiple violations of the truce.
Israel classified Hamas’s decision as a “Total violation” of the agreement and ordered his army to be ready “for all scenarios.”
Hamas then assured that the door remained “open” for the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners “what will happen as planned” on Saturday, “as soon as [Israel] has fulfilled their obligations ”.
In a statement this Monday night, Donald Trump He classified Hamas’s threat of postponing close release of hostages as terrible.
“As far as I am concerned, if all hostages are not back until noon on Saturday-I think it is a reasonable date-I would say,” Cancer and chaos will settle, “he said.
If they are not “all brought back to noon on Saturday”, the president of the United States promised “a true hell”.
The US head of state stressed that Israel must cancel the ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian Islamist movement if this deadline is exceeded.
This position of Hamas took the government of Benjamin Netanyahu army May you prepare for “all scenarios”.
Trump threatens Middle East countries
Trump has repeated that countries like Jordan and Egypt must say yes to your plan and Welcome the Palestinians of Gaza.
However, the Egyptian Foreign Minister has already warned the head of US diplomacy that Arab countries reject Donald Trump’s plan to expel the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
This Monday, Trump went further and threatened to remove financial supportIf so, “If they reject the plan, it is possible that I retain the help, yes.”
This on the eve of the day Trump will meet with the leader of Jordan, the king Abdullah IIem Washington.
In an interview with Fox News, Donald Trump continued to say that the Palestinians taken from Gaza would not have the right to returnone day later: “They wouldn’t have, because they will have a much better accommodation. In other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them, ”he added.
Sami Abou Zouhri, one of Hamas’s leaders said that Donald Trump’s statements threatening Gaza with “hell” if hostages are not released until Saturday They are “useless and only complicate the situation”.
“Trump must remember that there is an agreement [de tréguas] that must be respected on both sides [Israel e Hamas] And that this is the only way to bring prisoners back. The language of threats is worth nothing and only complicates things, ”said the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement.
The fragile truce negotiated by Qatar with the help of the United States and Egypt came into force on 19 January between Israel and Hamas, after more than 15 months of war that devastated the Gaza Strip.
The ceasefire has so far resulted in the release of 16 Israeli hostages, kidnapped on October 7, 2023 during the Hamas attack that triggered hostilities-in exchange for about 700 Palestinians detained by Israel.
Waiting-be that 17 more Israeli hostages are released During the first phase of the truce, which ends on March 1.
However, hostage died
Kibbutz de Kissoufin, in southern Israel, said on Tuesday that an Israeli of 86 yearskidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023 Died in captivity In the Gaza Strip.
“It is with a heavy heart that we Kibbutz members received the news of Murder of our dear friend Shlomo Mansour86 years old ”and was 494 days in captivity, indicates a statement.
The Hamas attack on October 7 did 1,210 dead on the Israelite sidemost civilians, according to a count of France Press, based on Israeli official data.
In total, 251 people were kidnapped on the day of the attack. 73 hostages remain detained in Gazaof which at least 34 died, according to the Israeli army.
The large -scale offensive carried out by Israel as reprisal caused at least 48,208 dead, mostly civilians, in Gaza and caused a humanitarian catastrophe in the besieged territory, according to data from the Hamas Ministry of Health, considered reliable by the United Nations.
