{"id":316956,"date":"2025-10-18T05:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316956"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T07:17:57","slug":"trump-threatens-to-kill-hamas-over-crackdown-on-israel-backed-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=316956","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens to \u2018kill\u2019 Hamas over crackdown on Israel-backed gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Oct 17, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to endorse renewed Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, if the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas continues to target gangs backed by the Israeli regime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,\u201d Trump wrote in a social media post on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He later made clear that US forces would not be entering Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be us,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe won\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people very close, very nearby that will go in and they\u2019ll do the trick very easily, but under our auspices,\u201d Trump said, in an apparent reference to Israeli forces.<\/p>\n

His threat marks a sharp escalation of his rhetoric against Hamas, just three days after a Gaza ceasefire deal was signed in Egypt.<\/p>\n

It also signals an about-face from Trump, who earlier this week backed Hamas\u2019 crackdown on gangs in the strip.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad, very, very bad gangs,\u201d Trump told reporters on Tuesday. \u201cAnd they did take them out, and they killed a number of gang members. And that didn\u2019t bother me much, to be honest with you. That\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Deterrent Force, affiliated with the security forces in Gaza, announced in a brief statement that its members had \u201cseized bastions of armed militiamen, mopped up terrorists of various neighborhoods, and carried out operations aimed at hunting down elements involved in the shooting and killing of displaced persons.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u00a0admitted that the regime had been arming and supporting Daesh-associated militiamen to “counter the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.”<\/p>\n

Also on Thursday, Trump warned that Hamas would ultimately have to disarm.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will disarm, and if they don\u2019t do so, we will disarm them, and it\u2019ll happen quickly and perhaps violently,\u201d Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n

Hamas\u2019 mop-up operations come as a fragile ceasefire, brokered by the United States, has taken effect in Gaza, after more than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel\u2019s genocide since October 2023.<\/p>\n

Since coming into effect on Saturday, Israel has repeatedly violated the deal, killing Palestinians daily under the pretext of approaching areas controlled by the Israeli military, which are not clearly marked.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Also see: Gaza tribal leaders support Hamas crackdown on Israeli-backed gangs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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