Trump warns Hamas against using Israeli captives in Gaza as ‘human shields’

US president says if reports that captives are being moved supra crushed to hinder Israeli battle are true, ‘all bets are off’.

United States President Donald Trump has warned Hamas against moving the Israeli captives in Gaza supra crushed to hinder Israel’s subject campaign, renewing his telephone for their release.

Trump wrote successful a societal media station connected Monday that helium work a quality study indicating that Hamas would usage the captives arsenic “human shields” amid the relentless Israeli bombardment of Gaza.

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“I anticipation the Leaders of Hamas cognize what they’re getting into if they bash specified a thing,” the US president said.

“This is simply a quality atrocity, the likes of which fewer radical person ever seen before. Don’t fto this hap or, ALL ‘BETS’ ARE OFF. RELEASE ALL HOSTAGES NOW!”

Trump has regularly posted threats against Hamas. But with astir of the group’s leaders already killed, and Israel having destroyed overmuch of Gaza successful a run that experts and rights groups accidental is simply a genocide, it is not wide however the US president tin further punish Hamas.

In caller weeks, Israel has been carrying retired a systematic run to level what remains of Gaza City, targeting residential towers and schools, and forcing a wide evacuation of the area. The United Nations’s peculiar envoy said contiguous that the violative is portion of a broader run of taste cleansing.

Trump’s informing connected Monday comes little than a week aft Israel killed 5 Hamas members and a Qatari information authoritative portion trying to assassinate elder Hamas leaders successful the Qatari capital, Doha. Those targeted were progressive successful negotiating a ceasefire and captives’ connection enactment guardant by the US president himself.

Hamas said its apical officials survived the strikes, which Trump said helium opposed. On Monday, Trump repeated his assertion that Israel would not beryllium striking Qatar again.

Days earlier the Doha attack, Trump issued what helium called a “last warning” for Hamas.

‘Human shields’

On Sunday, Israel’s nationalist broadcaster, Kan, reported that Hamas was moving Israeli captives to homes and tents to unit Israel to halt its bombardment run successful Gaza City.

The Israeli subject has agelong utilized Palestinians arsenic quality shields, some successful the occupied West Bank and Gaza, according to galore media reports, witnesser testimonies and video footage.

Last year, Al Jazeera obtained footage of Israeli soldiers sending Palestinian prisoners into tunnels and buildings successful Gaza to guarantee they were not rigged with explosives.

Israeli authorities regularly warrant their atrocities successful Gaza by claiming that Hamas uses civilians arsenic quality shields.

Over the past days, the Israeli subject has been stepping up its attacks connected the metropolis and crossed the territory with hundreds of strikes.

On Sunday, Israeli Minister of Defence Israel Katz shared footage of a high-rise gathering successful Gaza being obliterated by an Israeli strike, with the caption: “The location of cards. The skyline of Gaza is changing.”