US President Donald Trump threatened action on Thursday against Hamas over public executions carried out by the terrorist group after Israel withdrew from portions of the Gaza Strip under a US-backed ceasefire deal.

“If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,” he warned in a Truth Social message.

The post seemed to mark a reversal from his initial stance two days earlier on Hamas’s summary execution of Palestinians from rival gangs and Gazans it has accused of collaborating with Israel.

It also came as an Israeli-backed militia in southern Gaza appealed to the international community in a video obtained by The Times of Israel, urging the American president to protect residents of the Strip from Hamas.

Trump claimed on Tuesday that he had given Hamas “approval for a period of time” to carry out the killings, asserting that the terror organization was targeting some “very bad gangs.”

By Wednesday, though, the commander of US forces in the Middle East called on Hamas to immediately stop attacks on “innocent Palestinian civilians” and begin “disarming without delay”

Hours later, Trump told CNN he was doing “more research on it… It could be gangs plus.”

While Trump spoke in “we” terms when........

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