12/2/2024–|Last updated: 12/2/202411:00 PM (Mecca time)
US President-elect Donald Trump said that if detainees in the Gaza Strip are not released before his inauguration on January 20, there will be a “serious problem” in the Middle East.
Trump said in a post on social media, “The officials will receive blows more severe than any person has received in the long and storied history of the United States of America.”
Trump added, “Everyone talks about the hostages being brutal, inhumane, and contrary to the will of the world, but these are just talk without action.”
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced – Monday evening – that 33 Israeli prisoners held by it have 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.
The movement said – in a video clip it posted on its page on the Telegram platform – that some of their traces were lost due to “the criminal (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and his stubbornness.”
The movement warned “that the continuation of the (Israeli) aggression will raise the death toll of enemy prisoners.”
Israel estimates that there are 101 prisoners being held in the Gaza Strip.
With absolute American support, Israel has been committing genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 149,000 Palestinians martyred and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly.