Netanyahu warns Hamas to disarm or risk ‘all hell’ breaking loose
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday that if Hamas doesn’t agree to disarm under US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, “all hell” will break loose.
“We agreed to give peace a chance,” said Netanyahu when asked by the US outlet how it can be said that the war is over while the IDF is still deployed in parts of the Gaza Strip and Hamas is reasserting control of the enclave.
The premier pointed to Trump’s 20-point plan, okayed by both Israel and Hamas, which stipulates that the Palestinian terror group must be disarmed and Gaza demilitarized, with no weapons factories operating inside the Strip and no smuggling over its borders.
“We agreed, let’s get the first part done, and now let’s give a chance to do the second part,” Netanyahu said, voicing hope that Hamas will hand over its arms peacefully and paraphrasing Trump’s threat that otherwise “all hell breaks loose.”
While Hamas has been greatly weakened, it has shown no signs of disarming so far, instead seeking to reassert its authority in the Gaza Strip by cracking down on groups that it sees as defying it. Hamas has killed at least 33 people in recent days,........
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