{"id":7877,"date":"2025-12-29T23:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:28:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:28:40","slug":"hamas-will-have-hell-to-pay-if-it-fails-to-disarm-trump-warns-after-netanyahu-meeting-benjamin-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7877","title":{"rendered":"Hamas will have \u2018hell to pay\u2019 if it fails to disarm, Trump warns after Netanyahu meeting | Benjamin Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump<\/a> has warned that Hamas<\/a> will have \u201chell to pay\u201d if it fails to disarm while offering full-throated support to Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> during a meeting with the Israeli prime minister in Florida.<\/p>\n

In a bravura display of mutual admiration, Netanyahu announced that the US president would be awarded the Israel<\/a> prize, the country\u2019s highest civilian honour, which since its inception in the 1950s has never before been given to a non-Israeli person.<\/p>\n

The trip by Netanyahu to Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago residence came amid a new push by officials in Washington to force concessions from Israel to allow progress towards the second phase of a Gaza<\/a> peace plan, which in October halted the devastating two-year-long war.<\/p>\n

Asked if he and Netanyahu had discussed Israel pulling back troops before Hamas<\/a> fully disarmed, Trump told reporters: \u201cIf they don\u2019t disarm as they agreed to do \u2013 they agreed to it \u2013 then there\u2019ll be hell to pay for them and we don\u2019t want that, we\u2019re not looking for that. But they have to disarm within a fairly short period of time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He described the question of Israel withdrawing its forces as \u201ca separate subject\u201d, adding only: \u201cWe\u2019ll talk about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Last week the US news outlet Axios reported that the Trump administration<\/a> wanted to announce the Palestinian technocratic government for Gaza and the ISF as soon as possible and that senior Trump officials were growing exasperated \u201cas Netanyahu has taken steps to undermine the fragile ceasefire and stall the peace process\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Trump himself appeared to show no such qualms after Monday\u2019s meeting. He said he was \u201cnot concerned about anything that Israel is doing\u201d and \u201cIsrael has lived up to the plan, 100%\u201d.<\/p>\n

He repeatedly pointed the finger at Hamas, saying \u201cit\u2019ll be horrible for them\u201d if they failed to disarm. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be really, really bad for them, and I don\u2019t want that to happen. But they made an agreement that they were going to disarm. And you couldn\u2019t blame Israel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Trump claimed that other countries that supported the peace deal would \u201cgo in and wipe out Hamas\u201d if it fails to hold up its end of the bargain.<\/p>\n

The two leaders held a lunch meeting inside Mar-a-Lago along with their delegations. Netanyahu was expected to tell Trump that Hamas must return the remains of the last Israeli hostage left in Gaza before the next stages of the stalled ceasefire can be implemented, Israeli officials and analysts said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters before the meeting, Trump falsely said \u201cjust about\u201d every hostage was released because of him and his team, whereas \u201cnone\u201d were released during the Joe Biden administration. In fact, Hamas released a total of 138 hostages as a result of deals that Biden\u2019s administration helped broker, according to the Snopes factchecking site.<\/p>\n

The family of the last person whose remains have not been returned, Ran Gvili, has joined the Israeli prime minister\u2019s visiting entourage and will meet officials in Washington later this week.<\/p>\n

An Israeli official in Netanyahu\u2019s circle told Reuters that the prime minister would demand that Hamas return the remains of all hostages in Gaza, as required under the ceasefire deal, before moving to the next stages of Trump\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>People attend a rally earlier this month calling for the return of the remains of Ran Gvili in Tel Aviv, Israel.<\/span> Photograph: Maya Levin\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A second phase of the peace plan calls for an interim authority made up of non-aligned Palestinian technocrats to govern the Palestinian territory, and an international stabilisation force (ISF) of thousands of troops to be deployed. Israel has significant concerns about both.<\/p>\n

Gvili, a 24-year-old police officer, was badly wounded and then abducted during the October 2023 Hamas raid into Israel that triggered the conflict. It is unclear if he died of his wounds during the raid or in Gaza. Hundreds gathered on Saturday night<\/a> in Tel Aviv to demand that Israel makes no concession to advance the ceasefire deal until his remains are returned.<\/p>\n

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Lianne Pollak-David, a former Israeli military intelligence officer and peace negotiator in the prime minister\u2019s office, said the failure to return the remains of Gvili was a serious issue. \u201cNetanyahu and the Israelis as a people are simply not going to accept this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Hamas has freed 20 living hostages and returned the bodies of 27 dead hostages since October and some observers see the insistence on Gvili\u2019s remains being returned as a delaying tactic to allow Israel\u2019s military forces to remain in the 53% of Gaza they currently control.<\/p>\n

Daniel Levy, a UK-based analyst and former Israeli peace negotiator, said Netanyahu had no intention of withdrawing further from Gaza or allowing any international force that would deter Israeli military action.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe feels he has a number of cards to play yet and the remains of Gvili is the easiest one to play now but there are others,\u201d Levy said.<\/p>\n

Hamas retains large quantities of small arms but only a fraction of the heavy weapons that enabled its surprise attack into southern Israel in 2023, in which 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 250 abducted.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Palestinians receive donated food at a temporary camp for displaced people on the beach near Gaza City.<\/span> Photograph: Jehad Alshrafi\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than 70,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed in the ensuing Israeli offensive and vast swathes of Gaza reduced to ruins. About 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the October ceasefire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, Hamas has successfully established its authority over the parts of Gaza it controls with a series of executions, raids<\/a> and beatings targeting rival power brokers, collaborators with Israel and criminal gangs. Most of Gaza\u2019s 2.3 million population is said to now live in the Hamas-controlled zone.<\/p>\n

The Islamist militant organisation has proposed some solutions to allow some of its weapons to be put into storage but has refused to accept full disarmament.<\/p>\n

For Netanyahu, who faces an election within 10 months, the prospect of Iran repairing the damage inflicted on its nuclear programme in its short war with Israel and the US this summer and building up its ballistic missile capabilities is a priority.<\/p>\n

Trump had previously insisted that Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities were \u201ccompletely and fully obliterated\u201d. But on Monday he said: \u201cI hope they\u2019re not trying to build up again because, if they are, we\u2019re going to have no choice but very quickly to eradicate that buildup.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The president added: \u201cIran may be behaving badly. It hasn\u2019t been confirmed. But if it\u2019s confirmed, look, they know the consequences will be very powerful, maybe more powerful than the last time.\u201d Pressed for evidence, he said: \u201cThis is just what we hear, but usually where there\u2019s smoke, there\u2019s fire.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Israeli prime minister may be hoping for a political boost from his latest meeting with Trump, whom he again praised as Israel\u2019s greatest friend. Netanyahu said: \u201cWe decided to break a convention \u2013 or create a new one \u2013 and that is to award the Israel prize, which in almost our 80 years we\u2019ve never awarded it to a non-Israeli, and we\u2019re going to award it this year to President Trump \u2026 <\/em>for his tremendous contributions to Israel and the Jewish people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a second consolation prize for Trump, who missed out<\/a> on this year\u2019s Nobel peace prize but received a Fifa peace prize<\/a> \u2013 dismissed by critics as a cynical ploy by world football\u2019s governing body to curry favour.<\/p>\n

As if returning the compliment, Trump claimed he had spoken to the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, who told him that a pardon for Netanyahu in his long-running corruption trial was \u201con its way\u201d. Trump said: \u201cHe\u2019s a wartime prime minister who\u2019s a hero. How do you not give a pardon?\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about Trump\u2019s remarks, Herzog\u2019s office said the Israeli president had not had any conversations with Trump since a pardon request was submitted several weeks ago, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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