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by Dave DeCamp, Antoiwar. com, December 3, 2024
On Tuesday, a Hamas official responded to President-elect Donald Trumpโs warning that there would be โall hell to payโ if Israeli hostages in Gaza werenโt released by his inauguration on January 20, 2025.
Trump didnโt mention Hamas by name in his warning but appeared to threaten US strikes on the Palestinian group, saying, โThose responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America.โ
Basem Naim, a senior member of Hamasโs political bureau, said Trumpโs threat should be directed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, citing his efforts to sabotage a hostage and ceasefire deal. Israeli officials and media reports have also blamed Netanyahu for the lack of a deal.
โHamas understands that Trumpโs message is, in fact, directed primarily at Netanyahu and his government,โ Naim said, according to The Palestine Chronicle.
Naim said the Netanyahu government had been using negotiations as a cover to advance its own agenda. โNetanyahuโs government must put an end to this deceptive charade,โ he said.
Former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, who was recently fired by Netanyahu, said that the prime minister sabotaged the chances of a hostage deal by demanding Israel maintain control of the Philadelphi Corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border.
โI can tell you what there was not, security considerations. The IDF chief and I said there was no security reason for remaining in the Philadelphi Corridor,โ Gallant told hostage families on November 7. โNetanyahu said that it was a diplomatic consideration, Iโm telling you there was no diplomatic consideration.โ
There are believed to be 97 Israeli hostages remaining in Gaza, and Israeli media reported back in September that Netanyahu told a Knesset committee that only half of the hostages were believed to be alive.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in October that the Israeli government was done with ceasefire talks and was instead focused on annexing portions of the Gaza Strip. Thereโs been some recent efforts by mediators to restart talks, but thereโs no sign the effort is going anywhere, and thereโs no end in sight to the daily slaughter in Gaza.
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