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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Trump: Hamas will be ‘blown away very quickly’ if it doesn’t disarm very soon
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
“We have peace in the Middle East,” US President Donald Trump says at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“There are some little situations like Hamas, and Hamas has agreed to give up their weapons,” he asserts, though the terror group has publicly said it will not disarm.
“They were born with a weapon in their hand, so it’s not easy to do,” he says.
“That’s what they’ve agreed to, they’re going to do it,” Trump promises. “And we’re going to know over the next two-three days, certainly the next three weeks, whether or not they’re going to do it.”
“If they don’t do it, they’ll be blown away very quickly,” he warns.
Trump claims that many of the “59 countries” interested in participating in the peacekeeping force in Gaza “want to come in and take out Hamas. They want to do whatever they can.”
.@POTUS: "I think we have peace in the Middle East. There are some little situations like Hamas… we're going to know over the next 2 or 3 days, certainly over the next 3 weeks, whether or not they're going to [disarm]. If they don't do it, they'll be blown away very quickly." pic.twitter.com/W8Ofwwj018
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