Trump: Hamas violating ceasefire, will be ‘taken care of really quickly’ if it doesn’t stop

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US President Donald Trump waits for the arrival of Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese at the White House on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/ Getty Images North America/ Getty Images via AFP)
US President Donald Trump waits for the arrival of Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese at the White House on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/ Getty Images North America/ Getty Images via AFP)

US President Donald Trump says Hamas is “in violation” of his Gaza ceasefire agreement, warning that it will “be taken care of really quickly” if the terror group does not “straighten it out themselves.”

Trump’s comments to reporters at the White House appear to reference the deadly attack on Israeli troops yesterday, though, Washington has also criticized Hamas’s execution of rival gang members in the Strip over the past two weeks.

This is the first time that Trump has publicly declared that Hamas is violating the agreement after the White House pushed back on Israeli claims last week that the terror group was violating the terms of his deal by failing to return the remaining hostages’ bodies. US officials argued that Hamas was doing what it could to retrieve the bodies in difficult circumstances when many of them are buried deep under Gaza’s rubble.

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