GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories – US President Donald Trump warned Monday “all hell” would break loose if every Israeli hostage is not released from
TENSIONS SPIKED. Displaced Palestinians sit on a loaded truck on Salah al-Din road in al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip, on Monday, as people move towards the northern parts of Gaza during a current ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas. The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, in place since Jan 19, appeared increasingly fragile Tuesday after US President Donald Trump warned ‘all hell’ would break loose unless Hamas releases every Israeli hostage by the weekend.
The ceasefire agreement says staggered releases should take place over the ongoing 42-day first phase of the deal. In a later statement, Hamas said it had “intentionally” made the announcement five days before the next exchange to allow mediators ample time to pressure Israel “towards fulfilling its obligations. The door remains open for the prisoner exchange batch to proceed as planned, once the occupation complies.”Negotiators were due to meet in the coming days in Qatar to discuss the implementation of the truce’s first phase, as well as potentially the next phases which have yet to be finalised.
“I have instructed the IDF to prepare at the highest level of alert for any possible scenario in Gaza,” Katz said in a statement. Trump said Monday he could “conceivably” halt aid to US allies Jordan and Egypt if they refuse to take in Palestinians under his controversial Gaza plan.The threat to withhold aid came after Cairo’s foreign ministry said it rejected “any compromise” of Palestinian rights, including “remaining on the land”.
For Palestinians, any attempt to force them out of Gaza would evoke dark memories of what the Arab world calls the “Nakba” or catastrophe — the mass displacement of Palestinians during Israel’s creation in 1948. The Gaza war was triggered by Hamas’s Oct, 7, 2023 attack, the deadliest in Israel’s history, which resulted in the deaths of 1,210 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures.
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