Trump again threatened Hamas with ‘hell’ to be paid if he did not release the ‘all’ hostages ‘hostages’
President Donald Trump this week once again threatened Hamas to have “hell to pay” if it does not release “all” from the rest of the hostages and including the American-Israel-now claiming to be a “last warning” and that “it will end” for Hamas if it does not obey.
“Take off the hostage now, or there will be hell to be paid later!” Trump write On its social media platform on Wednesday, the latest in several similar threats.
“I sent Israel everything needed to complete the work, none of the Hamas members are safe if you don’t do what I say,” Trump also wrote, demanding “all hostages now, not later.”
President Donald Trump discussed a joint congress session in the DPR’s room in the US Capitol in Washington, March 4, 2025.
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Trump’s message arrived shortly after he met with eight hostages released from Gaza at the Oval Office on Wednesday.
“The president listens carefully to the story of heartbreaking them,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said At X. “The hostages thanked President Trump for his firm effort to bring all the hostages.”
Adi and Yael Alexander, the old American-Israeli hostage, Edan Alexander, attended a speech with Trump to the congress on Tuesday.
On Thursday, the US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff repeated the President’s threat, saying, “I will not test President Trump.”
Witkoff stressed that “there will be some actions taken” if the hostages are not released. “That can be with Israeli people … it’s not clear now,” he added.
When asked at the oval office on Thursday, what kind of action Trump will take and whether he has the potential to join a military attack with Israel, the President answered, “You will find out.”
Hamas dismissed Trump’s threat but argued that the President’s language served to empower Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Such a position is what gives the War Netanyahu criminals the power and ability to continue his crime as long as he receives support and absolute encouragement to commit more crimes against 2.4 million people,” said the Head of the Gaza Government Office in response.
“Trump’s threat to Hamas cannot be justified and has no value,” Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said in a statement to the news agency affiliated with Hamas, on the grounds that they were not intimidated by the President’s words. “Such threats must be directed to those who refuse to implement the agreement, not the commitment to that.”
In a new statement on Thursday, Hamas military spokesman threatened to kill more hostages if there was “an increase in aggression against our people.”
“The enemy has used intimidation, traffic, and reckless aggression,” the spokesman added, said “The threat of enemies is a sign of weakness and insult.”
Dana Shem Tov (C) Israeli hostage sister Omer Shem Tov reacted when he watched with another release which was broadcast television by Hamas militants at the family’s home in Tel Aviv, on February 22, 2025.
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After phase 1 of the ceasefire ended on Saturday, negotiations for phase 2 remain in the shaky land.
State Secretary Marco Rubio said last Saturday that the US accelerated the shipment of $ 4 billion in military assistance to Israel, claiming the move was a reversal of what he called the “partial weapons embargo” imposed by former President Joe Biden.
Biden has denied holding weapons to Israel, besides stopping one MK-84 Pound Bomb Delivery in May 2024, saying it would endanger Palestinian civilians if Israel uses it in a densely populated area in Gaza.
President Trump raised a break when he returned to the White House.
Israel stopped all the entry of food and other supplies into Gaza on Sunday, a few hours after announcing the extension of the ceasefire proposed by the US through Ramadan and the Jewish Easter holiday will end on April 20.
Hamas has refused to accept the proposed extension, calling it a violation of the three-phase agreement that was originally agreed upon, which included an extension of the recent ceasefire, and said it would not release the remaining prisoners without the eternal ceasefire and the full withdrawal of Israel.
On Tuesday, US officials directly negotiated with Hamas at the Emergency Arab League Summit in Cairo. The Summit adopted Egyptian plans to rebuild Gaza without the transfer of the Palestinian people, which was rejected by Israel.
Cars and pedestrians move along the road in the midst of widespread destruction caused by Israeli military land and air offensive to Hamas in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza City, 7 February 2025.
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It is still unclear what Trump means right when threatening “hell.”
Last month, the president demanded that Hamas not release “all hostages” during the day on Saturday, February 15, “all bets inactive, and let hell break.”
But the deadline came and went, and Hamas did not free “all” hostages – they freed three hostages scheduled to be released in accordance with the original ceasefire agreement.
The seventh and last hostage exchanges from phase 1 occurred on February 26, where 4 bodies were returned to Israel in exchange for 642 Palestinian prisoners.
A giant appearance that supports the release of all the hostages that have been detained in Gaza since the deadly attack on 7 October 2023, seen in a high -rise office building in the Ramat Gan, Israel, 18 February 2025.
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Fifty-eight hostages remain in Gaza-24 of them are considered alive. Alexander is the last American-Israel Hostage who remains alive in captivity.
Trump has promised “hell” for months, making this threat even before he was officially appointed to the office on January 20.
ABC News’ Morgan Winsor, Will Gretsky, Ellie Kaufman, Shannon Kingston, and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.
