Release the hostages, or there will be 'HELL TO PAY': Trump warns Hamas



President-elect Donald Trump delivered a stark ultimatum to Hamas on Monday, calling for the immediate release of hostages abducted during the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack against Israel.

Hamas' brutal assault resulted in the tragic deaths of approximately 1,200 civilians and injuries to 8,700 others. The extremist group kidnapped hundreds of hostages, including infants, women, and the elderly.

'Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America.'

On Monday, the Israel Defense Forces announced that Omer Neutra, a 21-year-old American-Israeli dual citizen who was previously thought to be a hostage, was actually murdered during the October 7 attack.

It is believed that three American hostages — Eden Alexander, 21; Keith Siegel, 65; and Sagui Dekel-Chen, 35 — are still alive and being held by Hamas more than a year later.

The terror organization released a propaganda video on Saturday that showed Alexander alive and, while under duress, calling for Trump to "use your influence and the full power of the United States to negotiate our freedom." The footage warned that "time is running out."

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, "Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East - But it's all talk, and no action!"

"Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity," Trump declared.

"Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!" he demanded.

In October, the Israeli government confirmed that it killed Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas who was one of the masterminds behind last year's attack.

Over the weekend, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told "Face the Nation" that he believes the terror organization is "feeling the pressure."

"They're feeling the pressure because one of their main partners in crime here, Hezbollah, has now cut a ceasefire deal," Sullivan stated. "They're feeling the pressure, of course, because their top leader, Sinwar, has been killed. So they may be looking anew at the possibility of getting a ceasefire and hostage deal."

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Ceasefire in Lebanon Is Stopgap Until Trump Takes Over, Israelis Say

JERUSALEM—President Joe Biden and his senior aides have described the ceasefire they brokered in Lebanon in historic terms. But Israeli leaders are counting down the days until Biden leaves office.

In the Rose Garden on Tuesday, Biden announced that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to the 60-day truce, which went into effect early Wednesday. Biden said the deal "heralds a new start for Lebanon" and "brings us closer to realizing the affirmative agenda that I’ve been pushing forward during my entire presidency: a vision for the future of the Middle East where it’s at peace and prosperous and integrated across borders." 

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Israeli Cabinet Poised To Approve Lebanon Ceasefire Deal, With Biden Reportedly Promising 'Relief' From Delayed US Arms Shipments

Israel is reportedly poised to sign a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah that would pause hostilities for two months, remove fighting forces from both sides of the war-torn border, and deliver "significant relief from the arms embargo imposed by the U.S. on Israel."

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WATCH: Trump Foreign Policy Picks Are ‘Dream Team’ for Israel

JERUSALEM—Donald Trump named more than half a dozen pro-Israel hawks to key foreign policy roles this week, reassuring Israelis that the president-elect’s incoming administration will be as supportive as his first.

Trump’s picks largely ended talk in Israel that MAGA isolationism could weaken U.S. backing of the Jewish state. Israeli commentators hailed the roster—led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) for secretary of state and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense—as a "dream team."

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Pro-Hamas Bernie Bro Elected to Dearborn School Board

Voters in Dearborn, Mich., a Muslim-American stronghold outside Detroit, have elected a former Bernie Sanders surrogate who defends the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah to serve on the city’s school board. 

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Bibi Fires Defense Minister Gallant, Citing 'Cracked' Trust Between the Two

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, sidelining a powerful security voice who has helped lead the Jewish state’s yearlong war against Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Iran-backed forces.

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Iran Is On The Brink Of Nuclear Breakout. Its Next Move Could Be Catastrophic For America

A nuclear-armed Iran would be as grave a threat to the United States as to Israel. We're closer to that than most Americans realize.

What Would It Take for Israelis To Return to the North? The Biden-Harris Admin’s Lebanon Ceasefire Proposal Won’t Do It, They Say.

KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel—Tens of thousands of Israelis have been waiting for more than a year for a resolution to the conflict with Hezbollah that would allow them to return to their evacuated homes in the north.

But according to many of them, a Biden-Harris administration ceasefire proposal reportedly under consideration by Israeli leaders is not it.

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How Biden Got Suckered by Putin

Many Americans of my generation—born early 1950s—have been living with Bob Woodward our entire adult lives. You think I’m speaking figuratively, but in my case it’s literally true: Way downstairs in a "Nixon cupboard" are my original hardback copies of All the President’s Men (1974) and The Final Days (1976); up on a third-floor Supreme Court shelf is The Brethren (1979); in a second floor study are Veil (1987), The Choice (1996), and Shadow (1999), plus Fear (2018) and Rage (2020); in an "FBI basement" bookcase is The Secret Man (2005); here in the office I work in are Obama’s Wars (2010) and The Price of Politics (2012). There are another 10, on subjects ranging from John Belushi to Alan Greenspan, which I don’t own.

Suffice it to say that Robert U. Woodward has been a ubiquitous presence in American life ever since the Watergate summer of 1972. That’s quite a career. Indeed, Woodward may well be the most consequential journalist in American history, eclipsing long-ago names like Scotty Reston and Joe Alsop, whom almost no one nowadays will remember, or even his famous onetime boss, Ben Bradlee. Remember, in the 1976 movie based on his first book, Robert Redford played Woodward, Jason Robards played Bradlee.

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FACT CHECK: Video Claims To Show Hezbollah In 2024

A video shared on X claims to show Hezbollah in 2024. This is the mood in 🇱🇧 Hezbollah Pray for the IDF pic.twitter.com/Z3x0fe7HW3 — What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) October 28, 2024 Verdict: Misleading This video is from 2023, not 2024. It shows a Hezbollah man-portable air defense system (MANPAD) squad, per the original video description. Fact […]