Trump warns Hamas about the release of all hostages, USA in talks

Trump warns Hamas about the release of all hostages, USA in talks

President Donald Trump ultimately asked Hamas to leave all hostages in the Gaza Strip immediately. This explanation was published just a few hours after the White House confirmed that the militantist group was negotiated directly. Trump clearly commented on the Truth Social platform, where he said: “Now give all hostages, not later, and immediately give back all the corpses of the people you murdered, or it's over for you.”

direct negotiations between the USA and Hamas

Trump announced that he will "provide Israel" everything it needs to end it "and warned:" Not a single member of Hamas will be sure if you don't do what I say. " These statements came only hours after the confirmation that the USA for the first time negotiates hosts directly with Hamas about hostages and a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. This step contradicts the existing tradition of the United States not to speak to groups that they consider as terrorist organizations. Axios first reported on the talks.

The position of Israel and the reactions

The USA declared Hamas a foreign terrorist organization in 1997 and traditionally have no contacts with such groups, although there were exceptions. Both the governments of Obama and Trump had had discussions with the Taliban. The Press spokeswoman of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, was asked why the United States is negotiating "directly and for the first time with Hamas". She replied that the special officer for hostages, Adam Boehler, who had authority to speak to everyone.

The Israeli government announced that it had communicated her position on the direct discussions with Hamas to the United States. However, it did not become clear whether Israel knew about the negotiations in advance or was only informed later. In an interview with Fox Business, a high -ranking Israeli diplomat indicated that the talks took place and said: “Instead of putting pressure on Israel, President Trump Hamas puts pressure on, and that's the right thing.”

warning to the people in Gaza

in his comments on Truth Social, Trump turned directly to the people in Gaza and explained that a nice future was waiting for them, but only if they did not hold hostages. "If you do this, you are dead! Make a smart decision. Now give the woken freely or it will have bad consequences!"

Trump has indicated in the past that he sees Gaza as a “large real estate area” that he sees for development projects and that he imagines that Gaza could become the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

Hamas reacts to Trump's statements

Hamas warned that Trump's statements could endanger the ceasefire and the hostage agreement in the Gaza Strip. The spokesman for Hamas, Hazem Qassem, told CNN that the remarks would not implement the situation with regard to the ceasefire agreement and the Israeli government would not be able to implement the agreement. Qassem asked the United States to put pressure on Israel to enter the second phase of the negotiations, “as defined in the agreement.”

On Sunday, one day after the first phase, Israel blocked humanitarian aid for Gaza, in response that Hamas rejected a new Israeli proposal to extend the ceasefire without obligation to terminate the war or to completely deduct the troops.