‘I Think They Want to Die’: Trump Unloads on Hamas, Greenlights Israel to ‘Finish the Job’

President Donald Trump unloaded on Hamas on Friday while speaking to reporters outside the White House and appeared to give Israel the green light to “finish the job” and “get rid of them” after the latest round of ceasefire negotiations failed this week.

“Yeah, Gaza — they pulled out of Gaza. They pulled out in terms of negotiating. It was too bad. Hamas — Hamas didn’t really want to make a deal,” Trump told reporters, adding:

I think they want to die, and it’s very, very bad. And it got — it got to be to a point where you’re going to have to finish the job. They really, they asked for things. Don’t forget, we got a lot of hostages out. So now we’re down to the final hostages.

And they know what happens after you get the final hostages, and basically, because of that, they really didn’t want to make a deal. I saw that. So they pulled out and they’re going to have to fight and they are going to clean it up. You’re going have to get rid of them.

Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, said in a Thursday statement that he was bringing his team home from Qatar after Hamas showed “a lack of desire to reach a ceasefire” in their latest efforts to end or at least pause the nearly 22-month-long conflict.

“While the mediators have made a great effort, Hamas does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith,” Witkoff said in a statement. “We will now consider alternative options to bring the hostages home and try to create a more stable environment for the people of Gaza.”

Media reporters this week have highlighted a growing aid and starvation crisis emerging in Gaza. Fox News’s Trey Yingst reported earlier in the week that “Hundreds of trucks worth of aid is sitting inside Gaza, as we reported days ago. Five separate routes were offered to the UN to distribute this aid, I’m told. Palestinian civilians are in desperate need of this humanitarian support.”

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