Trump is pushing for hostage exemption: Hell in the Middle East threatens!

The designated US President Donald Trump has increased the pressure on the negotiators to release hostages in Gaza. He warned that "hell will break off in the Middle East" if the hostages are not brought back to its inauguration on January 20. Steve Witkoff, Trump's candidate for the Middle East representative, will take part in negotiations in Qatar and was optimistic about possible agreements between Israel and Hamas before the mentioned date.

delegations from Israel and Hamas have been in Qatar since last weekend. Although Trump's team is working with the outgoing government of Joe Biden, it is not officially involved in the negotiations. However, earlier hopes for agreements in the talks had often been disappointed. Experts doubt the effectiveness of Trump's threats to Hamas, while the Israeli military leadership determines that Hamas has been severely weakened since the beginning of the Gaza War 15 months ago.

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Another development step is the approval of Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a negotiating delegation to Qatar. These discussions aim to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and ensure the return of Israeli hostages. Hamas also plans to send negotiators to Qatar. Mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the USA are already active while direct negotiations are rejected by Hamas.

At the same time, there were military conflicts that cost several civilians. An Israeli air raid on an alleged Hamas headquarters led the military to defend the situation, but reported the Palestinian information from at least 46 killed civilians in various regions of the Gaza Strip. The main quotation between Israel and Hamas remains the question of a permanent ceasefire, whereby Israel demands a list of the hostages captured in the Gaza Strip.

In addition, Hamas raises the right to a break in a fight to clarify the place of whereabouts and health of the hostages, which Israel sees as a advanced claim. While the conflict continues, more than a million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip suffer from hunger. Israel continues to carry out air strikes with numerous civilian victims, which further increases the tensions. The information on both sides is initially not independent of how ZDF reported.

In the past, Hamas members killed around 1,200 people in Israel on October 7, 2023 and dragged over 250. After over a year, 100 hostages are held by Hamas in Gaza. These hostages are also people with German and American citizenship. Hamas plans to use dead hostages to press Palestinian prisoners free in Israel, such as Radio Ennepe Ruhr reported.