Journalist CNN Jake Tapper asked Trump through SMS on Saturday, which could happen if Hamas insist on staying in power in the Gaza Strip. The president replied: “complete annihilation!”.
Tapper also asked for a comment on Hamas' response to the US President's peace plan. He recalled the statement of the American senator Lindsey Graham, according to which Hamas rejected the proposal, demanding a lack of disarmament, maintenance of the Gaza Zone under the Palestinian control and linking the issue of releasing hostages with negotiations. The journalist asked if the senator was wrong.
“We'll see. Only time will show !!!” Trump wrote back. The president expects “soon” it will turn out if Hamas really wants peace.
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Asked whether the Prime Minister of Israel Binjamin Netanyahu fully supports the end of the bombing of the Gaza Zone and the peace vision of Trump, he replied: “Yes in the case of Bibie.”
Trump expressed the hope that the suspension of the weapon he proposed would come into force, and assured that he was working hard to make it happen.
On Saturday, the president announced that Israel agreed to the “initial line of withdrawal” in the Gaza Strip. He added that after confirming this by Hamas, the suspension of the weapon would immediately enter into force and the exchange of prisoners and hostages would begin.
Earlier he warned that he would not tolerate delays in Hamas' actions or agree to any solution in which “Gaza Zone would be a threat again”.
Hamas accepted some of the points of the peace plan
On Friday, Hamas announced that he had accepted some points of the US President's peace plan, including the release of all Israeli hostages, but others require further arrangements. Trump called Israel to immediately cease the bombing of the Gaza Strip.
On Saturday morning, the Israeli army was ordered to suspend offensive activities in the Gaza Strip. However, the army continued to conduct “defense operations”. According to Civil Defense controlled by Hamas, 57 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday, including 40 in the besieged city of Gaza.
The Prime Minister of Israel said on Saturday evening that he hopes that Hamas will be released in a few days. He added that Hamas would be disarmed. On Monday, talks are to start in Cairo about the details of putting into force of the peace plan, to which Israel and Hamas agreed.
