A wide presumption of a U.S. State Department motion extracurricular the U.S. State Department gathering successful Washington, D.C., U.S., July 11, 2025.
Annabelle Gordon | Reuters
The U.S. State Department said Saturday that it has "credible reports" that Hamas could interruption the ceasefire with an onslaught connected Palestinian civilians successful Gaza.
If the onslaught takes place, it "would represent a nonstop and sedate violation" of the statement forged by President Donald Trump to extremity the two-year warfare betwixt Israel and Hamas, the connection said.
No further details were disclosed astir the imaginable attack.
"Should Hamas proceed with this attack, measures volition beryllium taken to support the radical of Gaza and sphere the integrity of the ceasefire," the State Department said.
Trump antecedently warned connected societal media that "if Hamas continues to termination radical successful Gaza, which was not the Deal, we volition person nary prime but to spell successful and termination them."
The U.S. president aboriginal clarified helium won't nonstop U.S. troops into Gaza aft launching the menace against Hamas.
"It's not going to beryllium us," helium told reporters. "We won't person to. There are radical precise close, precise adjacent that volition spell successful and they'll bash the instrumentality precise easily, but nether our auspices."
Trump's hostile rhetoric represented a displacement aft initially expressing nonchalance astir Hamas killings, saying they had taken retired "a mates of gangs that were precise bad."
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