Trump national security adviser: Hamas will never govern Gaza

US Rep. Michael Waltz walks into the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/ Getty Images via AFP)
US Rep. Michael Waltz walks into the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/ Getty Images via AFP)

US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, says that if Hamas reneges on the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal, the United States will support Israel “in doing what it has to do.”

He adds in an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation,” “Hamas will never govern Gaza. That is completely unacceptable.”

Waltz says Trump and his team have made clear to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, adding “I want the Israeli people to hear me loud and clear.”

“If Hamas reneges on this deal and Hamas backs out, moves the goalpost, what have you, we will support Israel in doing what it has to do,” he says.

Waltz is also optimistic about the Trump administration being able to broker a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia as part of the Abraham Accords.

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