US President Donald Trump warned that if Hamas did not release all Israeli hostages until Saturday, “hell will unleash.” He also threatened to suspend help for Egypt and Jordan, if these countries did not agree to his idea of resettling refugees from Gaza.
– As far as I am concerned, if all the hostages are not released until 12 o'clock on Saturday (…) I would say: Let's cancel it (suspension of the weapon) and let the hell unleash – said the president USA Donald Trump In the White House, when asked about the delay in the release of another group of Israeli hostages by Hamas.
At the same time, Trump admitted that the final decision belongs to Israel. – I would say that they should be released until Saturday at 12. Everyone should be released, not in small groups, not after two or four – he noted. When asked if Israeli or American forces would unleash hell, Trump replied that “Hamas would convince what he meant.”
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The US president estimated that Hamas is trying to find a reason not to fulfill the promise of releasing hostages, speculating that many of them may be dead. He also stated that the released hostages “look like a Holocaust”.
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Trump threatens Jordan and Egypt
Trump also threatened Jordan and Egyptthat he can suspend help for them if these countries do not agree to his plan to settle all the population in them. The president said earlier that he wanted the Palestinians to be resettled there permanently.
On Monday, Trump said that Palestinians would like to escape from Gaza, and officials from neighboring countries would like to give them land to settle. When asked if the US would force the inhabitants of Gaza to leave their land, he only said that the Palestinians would take themselves if they have an alternative to a better life in other countries.
Egypt, whom the Minister of Foreign Affairs met on Monday with the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, rejected this idea in a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. King of Jordan Abdullah II is to meet with Trump in the White House on Tuesday. Trump expressed the belief that Jordan would agree to receive more Palestinians. When asked if he would retain help for these countries, he replied: “Yes, maybe. Sure, why not?”
Hamas delays the release of hostages
Hamas announced on Monday that he would delay the release of subsequent Israeli hostages planned for Saturday. The abducted are exchanged on Palestinian prisoners in Israel as part of a truce in the Gaza Strip. In response, the defense minister Israel Israel Kac put the army on the highest readiness. Hamas justified the delay in Israel's prior breaking the conditions of the truce.
For three weeks, Israel has violated the conditions for suspension of weapons by attacking the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, delaying the return of refugees to the north of this territory and not allowing humanitarian aid in a set extent – told the spokesman of the military wing of Hamas, Al -Kassama brigades on social media.
The announcement indicates that Israel must “fulfill its obligations and repeatly for the violations made in recent weeks.”
In response, the KAC stated that the suspension of the exchange was a “explicit violation of the truce of the truce”, and ordered the armed forces to maintain the state of the highest readiness and be prepared for “every possible scenario in the Gaza Strip”.
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