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President Donald Trump issued an “last warning” to Hamas to accept his deal, release the remaining hostages or confront the consequences.
“Everyone wants hostages at home. Everyone wants this war to end,” Trump wrote on the social truth. “The Israelis have accepted a crucial. It is time to accept Hamas too.”
“Hamas has warned of the consequences of not accepting,” he added. “This is my last warning, there will be no other warning! Thank you for your interest in this issue.”
Last month, Trump said that the remaining hostages will only be returned when “confronting and destroying Hamas.” At the time, Hamas was indicating alleged progress in the ceasefire talks.
The White House is calling for all hostages of Gaza to the homeland “this week” amid suspended talks
The terrorists stand in Hamas in Rafah in the Southern Gaza Strip, February 22, 2025. (Reuters/Hatem Khaled/File Photo)
In July, the United States and Israel withdrew the negotiators from Qatar after Trump Steve Wittakv said that Hamas showed “a” lack of desire to reach a ceasefire “and may not negotiate in good faith.
On August 26, I told Witkof Fox News’ Bret Baier in a “Special Report” that he and Trump wanted the hostages this week.
“There has been a deal on the table over the past six or seven weeks, which would have launched 10 of the hostages among the twenty people who believe they are alive,” he said, noting that he believed that Hamas is “100 %” blame for adherence.
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The United States Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Wittouf, said late last month that he and Trump’s President wanted Hamas to release the hostages who have been walking since October 2023. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Witkoff did not explain what delays the return of the hostages, nearly two years after they took them on October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel.
There are still fifty hostages they keep by Hamas, as only 20 of them were evaluated alive.
Trump had previously predicted in late August that there would be a “conclusive” end of the war in Gaza within the following “two to three weeks”, although he did not say how this would be achieved.
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The Israeli Defense Forces are seen working in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip. (Unit of the Israeli Defense Army) unit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that a comprehensive ceasefire – which guarantees the return of all hostages and the war ends on Israel’s conditions – will be considered.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that Israel is preparing a new attack in Gaza targeting Hamas.
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IDF spokesman, Colonel Avichai Adri, warned the Palestinians in parts of Gaza City against leaving before an expected escalation. The warning guarantees a map that defines the area and highlights one building that plans for the Yerbu Industrial Union to beat, noting “the presence of terrorist infrastructure in Hamas inside or near.”
Rachel Wolf, Daniel Wallace from Fox News Digitter and Daniel Wallace contributed to this report.