The Israeli newspaper “Haaretz” mocked US President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to open the gates of “hell” on the Gaza Strip if the Israeli prisoners held by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) are not released since the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa flood on October 7, 2023.
It was reported that Trump threatened, on Monday, “those responsible” for the killing of American-Israeli prisoner Omar Neutra – who was previously believed to be alive in Gaza – that there would be “hell for which they will pay” if the rest of the prisoners were not released before his inauguration on January 20. Next January.
Trump wrote, in a message posted on the “Truth” social media platform he owns, that those responsible for Neutra’s killing will receive “severer blows than any person has received in the long and rich history of the United States of America,” adding, “Release the prisoners now.”
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced – on Monday evening – that 33 Israeli prisoners held by it had been killed since October 2023, and confirmed that most of them were killed by the Israeli army’s bombing of different areas of the Gaza Strip.
Come and ringing promises
In the report published by Haaretz, Israeli journalist Rachel Fink mocked what was contained in the letter sent by the US President-elect, describing its style as including successive sentences and resonant promises backed by claims that reflect unparalleled arrogance, ability, and power.
She said that people have forgotten that Trump is the same one who had promised during his election campaign, in 2020, before assuming the presidency for the first time, to force Mexico to fund the construction of a wall along its border with the United States, and he is the one who has always sworn that he would repeal and replace the health care law. Affordable prices, cancels the national debt, sets term limits for Congress, and saves the coal industry.
He forgot his previous claims
She added that a state of collective memory loss may have been what made people ignore Trump’s claims that his first administration dealt with the Corona pandemic better than any other country, or that he rebuilt the American army, created the greatest economy in history, and single-handedly brokered peace in the Middle East.
Fink criticized some Israeli officials who were happy with Trump’s statements, noting that far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich thanked the president-elect, as did Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
As for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he commented at the beginning of the cabinet meeting on Monday, saying that Trump “focused on the right place, which is the Hamas movement, and not on the Israeli government, as is usual.”
Hell did not free the captives
The Israeli journalist sent a letter to Trump himself, and drew his attention to the fact that the Gaza Strip had turned into devastation and devastation, and that tens of thousands of its residents had been killed, and that there were a greater number of wounded and maimed, and that those who remained alive were crowded into temporary tents, while stray dogs wandered among the The ruins “feed on the bodies of the dead.”
She concluded her message by asking Trump whether he would open the gates of hell on Gaza as he promised. But she chose to answer the question herself, saying that the Palestinians had escaped hell a long time ago, and that the urgent news was that that hell had not freed the prisoners.