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On Monday, Hamas freed the last living Israeli hostages from
Gaza, and Israel sent home busloads of Palestinian detainees under a ceasefire deal brokered by Trump, but Hamas has not publicly committed to downing its weapons.
U.S. President
Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had communicated to Hamas that the militant group must disarm or it will be forced to.
"If they don't disarm, we will disarm them. And it will happen quickly and perhaps violently," Trump said during a meeting at the White House with Argentine President Javier Milei.
Trump said he communicated this to Hamas and they had agreed to disarm, as his 20-point peace proposal stated.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had communicated to Hamas that the militant group must disarm or it will be forced to.
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"I spoke to Hamas, and I said, you're going to disarm, right? Yes, sir, we're going to disarm. That's what they told me," Trump said, later clarifying that he passed the message through intermediaries? Uhm, ok.
US president says it should take place in a ‘reasonable period of time’ amid questions over group’s status
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Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Trump said: “If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them and it will happen quickly and perhaps violently.
“But they will disarm, do you understand me?” he added, saying it should take place in a “reasonable period of time”. (???)
As a
Trump-brokered ceasefire comes into effect in Gaza this week, one of the greatest question marks remains the White House’s plans to force
Hamas to disarm and leave Gaza if and when the second phase of his 20-point peace deal comes into effect.
“Phase two has started,” he said. “The phases are all a little bit mixed in with each other. You’re gonna start cleaning up. You look at Gaza – it needs a lot of cleanup.
The US president’s own remarks had suggested the group may continue to play a limited role in Gaza, as revelations surfaced of a direct meeting between White House envoys and Hamas negotiators in the highest-level summit ever held between the two sides.
Earlier this week, he admitted the group would have a “limited role” in maintaining order in the short term, raising questions about how the White House may seek to wrangle a peace deal that attempts to restrain Hamas and Israel from resuming the conflict.
Video released on Tuesday by Hamas showed the group’s members executing eight blindfolded…
View attachment 31600…bound and kneeling men whom it called “collaborators and outlaws”. Agence France-Presse, which reported the video, said Hamas was targeting “Palestinian criminal gangs and clans” in Gaza after the signing of a ceasefire between the group and Israel.
Aboard Air Force One, Trump told reporters Hamas would continue to have a limited role in enforcing security operations before phase two of the peace deal started, despite the fact his
20-point deal expressly said that the group will disarm and abandon its aim to control the Gaza Strip.
“[Hamas] are standing because they do want to stop the problems, and they’ve been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time,” Trump said.
US president says it should take place in a ‘reasonable period of time’ amid questions over group’s status
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Hamas has informed mediators it will begin transferring bodies of four deceased Israeli hostages to Israel at 10 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Tuesday, an official involved in the operation told Reuters.
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Earlier, Israeli officials said the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt would
stay closed at least through Wednesday and the flow of aid into the Palestinian enclave wouldl be reduced to put pressure on the militant group to hand over the bodies of the hostages it is holding.
Hamas has informed mediators it will begin transferring bodies of four deceased Israeli hostages to Israel at 10 p.m. local time (1900 GMT) on Tuesday, an official involved in the operation told Reuters.
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Hamas has
launched several attacks on dissidents in the meantime, murdering them and dragging them through the streets, to show that it has no intention of going anywhere.
It has always used a combination of gangland-style killings and the appearance of normalcy in governance to control Gaza. This has been Hamas’s pattern since it seized control in an illegal coup in 2007.
The group uses violence when it wants to remind the populace that it is in charge. It has murdered people and dragged them behind motorcycles in the past. Hamas has carried out public “field executions” of people in the streets. It has attacked clans and families that it believes are dissidents, labeling them “collaborators.”
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Hamas faced two years of war with Israel, where its terrorists could not easily travel in the open while bearing arms. However, every time there has been a ceasefire, Hamas has resurfaced with uniforms and guns.
It may have lost most of its rocket arsenal and even many of its tunnels. However, it has not lost its small arms, such as its AK-47 rifles. That is how Hamas came to power in the first place – with AK-47s. It did not have many missiles back in 2007.
Hamas has launched several attacks on rival clans, killing "collaborators" attempting to challenge Hamas's superiority in post-ceasefire Gaza.
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The Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry said its forces were moving to restore order and cautioned that “any armed activity outside the framework of the resistance” would be met with decisive action, the BBC reported.
At least 27 people are dead after intense street fighting broke out between Hamas terrorists and armed clan members within Gaza City.
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