Hamas treatment “One of the hostages that she was keeping in captivating in the Gaza Strip was” unbearable, “the United States said by President Trump.
Witkoff spoke outside the White House a day after the president Donald Trump He met eight former hostages in Washington and published what he called “the last warning” to Hamas on the social truth platform.
“We will not sit here, do nothing and bear this kind of inhuman circumstances.” “They lived in a terrible situation. By the way, who keeps the bodies of the dead? Who does that? Who keeps people in the basement?
“We spent a great day with the hostages yesterday … They got life, and took time with President Trump. We thought it would be a short period of time because his day was busy, but he ended up with them for an hour with both the hostages, and he spent a lot of time listening to their stories about what happened on the trip.
After Trump's threat, Hamas refuses to launch more hostages without a 2 stage of the ceasefire deal
Steve Whitchov, the White House of the Middle East, in the center, accompanied by White House Secretary Caroline Levit, talks to the White House correspondents in Washington on Thursday, March 6. (AP/I CURTIS)
“The president was very straightforward,” he added. “It is time to start Hamas to act in a responsible and reasonable manner. We don't think they were doing it.”
However, on Thursday, the Palestinian terrorist group rejected Trump's threat and refused to release more Israeli hostages without a permanent stopping fire in the Gaza Strip.
“The best way to liberate the remaining Israeli hostages” is through negotiations in the second stage of the ceasefire agreement.
The first stage of the ceasefire, which lasted 42 days, ended on Saturday. The second stage was supposed to start in early February, although only limited preparatory talks were held.
“Shalom Hamas means hello goodbye – you can choose,” Trump said on Wednesday. “All the hostages are now released, not later, and immediately all the bodies of the people you killed, or ended for you.”
Trump added that he is “Send Israel All you need to finish the job, “and this” will not be a single member of a safe enthusiasm if you do not say.
Palestinian Hamas fighters in Israeli hostages are surrounded by Averu Mengistu and Tal Shoham standing on stage while they were released into a softening in the southern Gaza Strip on February 22. (Omar Forces/AFP via Getty Images)
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The President wrote: “Also, to the people of Gaza: a beautiful future awaits, but not if you hold hostages.” “If you do it, you are dead!
Stephen Soras in Fox News and Associated Press contributed to this report.
