US: Our message to Hamas is the same in direct talks as it has been in other channels

By Jacob Magid

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7 March 2025, 1:43 am

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

US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce suggests the Trump administration’s hostage envoy merely used his direct talks with Hamas to convey the same message that Washington has been seeing through other channels to date.

“Nothing was conveyed differently. There was no change of position. It was the conveyance of the existing American position about Hamas and how it cannot exist in Gaza,” Bruce says during a press briefing.

“Whether it is through a tweet or a diplomatic cable or on television or through envoys or in a meeting, that message can be conveyed… so that a bloodthirsty group like Hamas understands that our message is not fluid.”