President Donald Trump, once again, threatened Hamas, will have a “hell to pay” if he does not release “all” from his remaining hostages, including an American-Israeli, now he affirms that this would be his “last warning” and that “will end” for Hamas if he does not comply.
“Liberate the hostages now, or there will be a hell to pay later!” Triumph wrote On its social media platform on Wednesday, the last of several similar threats.
“I am sending Israel everything you need to finish the job, or a single Hamas member will be safe if you do not do what I say,” Trump wrote too, demanding “all hostages now, not later.”
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of the Congress in the Chamber of the Chamber in the United States Capitol in Washington, on March 4, 2025.
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Trump’s message occurred shortly after meeting with eight of Gaza’s released hostages at the Oval office on Wednesday.
“The president carefully listened to his heartbreaking stories,” the press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying In X. “The hostages thanked President Trump for his firm efforts to take all hostages home.”
Adi and Yael Alexander, the parents of the last American-Israeli hostage, Edan Alexander, attended Trump’s joint speech to Congress on Tuesday.
On Thursday, the special envoy of the United States to the Middle East Steve Witkoff reiterated the threat of the president, saying: “He would not try President Trump.”
Witkoff emphasized that “there will be some measures taken” if the hostages are not thrown. “It could be jointly with the Israelis … it is not clear at this time,” he added.
When asked in the Oval office on Thursday, what kind of action Trump would take and if he would potentially join military attacks with Israel, the president replied: “You will discover.”
Hamas deactivated Trump’s threat, but argued that the president’s language serves to empower Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Such positions are those that give Netanyahu war criminal the strength and ability to continue their crimes whenever he receives absolute support and stimulus to commit more crimes against 2.4 million people,” said the head of the Gaza Government’s office in response.
“Trump’s threats against Hamas are unjustified and have no value,” said Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, in a statement to a news agency affiliated with Hamas, arguing that they are not intimidated by the president’s words. “These threats must go to those who refuse to implement the agreement, not those committed to it.”
In a new statement on Thursday, a Hamas military spokesman threatened to kill more hostages if there is “an aggression escalation against our people.”
“The enemy has resorted to intimidation, stagnation and reckless aggression,” added the spokesman, saying “enemy’s threats are a sign of weakness and humiliation.”
Dana Shem Tov (c) The sister of the Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov reacts while looking with others her televised launch by Hamas militants in the family home in Tel Aviv, on February 22, 2025.
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After Phase 1 of Alto El Fuego expired on Saturday, negotiations for phase 2 remained in unstable terrain.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said last Saturday that the United States is speeding up the delivery of $ 4 billion in military assistance to Israel, claiming that the measure was a reversal of what he called a “partial embargo on weapons” imposed by former President Joe Biden.
Biden denied retaining weapons to Israel, apart from stopping a single sending of MK-84 pumps of 2,000 pounds in May 2024, saying that it would endanger the Palestinian civilians if Israel used them in densely populated areas of Gaza.
President Trump lifted the pause when he returned to the White House.
Israel stopped all the entry of food and other supplies to Gaza on Sunday, hours after announcing an extension of high the fire proposed by the United States through Ramadan and the vacations of the Jewish Easter to end on April 20.
Hamas has refused to accept the proposed extension, describing it as non -compliance with the originally agreed three -phase agreement, which included an extension of the high high fire, and said that it will not release the remaining captives without a high lasting fire and a complete Israeli withdrawal.
On Tuesday, US officials were negotiating directly with Hamas at an emergency summit in the Arab League in Cairo. The summit adopted the Egyptian plan to rebuild Gaza without the displacement of the Palestinian people, which Israel has rejected.
Cars and pedestrians move along a road in the midst of the general destruction caused by the land and air offensive of the Israeli army against Hamas in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the city of Gaza, on February 7, 2025.
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It had not been clear what Trump means exactly when he threatens the “hell.”
Last month, the president demanded that if Hamas did not publish “all hostages” for noon on Saturday, February 15, “all bets are turned off and let hell explode.”
However, the deadline came and left, and Hamas did not release “all” from the hostages: they released the three hostages that were scheduled to be released according to the original high fire agreement.
The seventh and last exchange of hostages of phase 1 occurred on February 26, where 4 bodies were returned to Israel in exchange for 642 Palestinian prisoners.
A giant exhibition that supports the launch of all hostages that have been held in Gaza since the deadly attack of October 7, 2023, seen in a large -rise office building in Ramat Gan, Israel, on February 18, 2025.
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Fifty -eight hostages remain in Gaza, 24 of which it is presumed that they are alive. Alexander is the last American-Israeli hostage to remain alive in captivity.
Trump has promised “hell” for months, doing this threat even before he was officially in office on January 20.
Morgan Winsor de ABC News, Will Gretsky, Ellie Kaufman, Shannon Kingston and Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.
