US President Donald Trump says he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “talked about Hamas and we talked about disarmament.”
Hamas “will be given a very short period of time to disarm,” says Trump in response to a question about whether Israel will be expected to pull its troops back from Gaza before the terror groups disarm.
Top White House envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will be in charge of that effort from the US side, says Trump. “If they don’t disarm, as they agreed to do, they agreed to it, then there will be hell to pay for them.”
“They have to disarm within a fairly short period of time,” Trump stresses.
If they don’t “it will be horrible for them… really, really bad.”
He again claims that other countries are willing to disarm Hamas. “Those same countries will go and wipe them out” if Hamas doesn’t disarm, he insists. “They don’t even need Israel.”
“They want to do it because it’s the right thing to do.”
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