Trump Threatens to ‘Go in and Kill’ Hamas If It Continues Reign of Terror in Gaza
President Donald Trump takes questions from the White House press as he boards his helicopter for a flight to Norfolk, VA, on October 5, 2025. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and First Lady Melania accompany him on this trip. (Photo by Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via AP)
Neoconservatism is back, baby.
President Donald Trump issued a firm warning to Hamas on Thursday, informing members of the terrorist organization that the United States would have “no choice” but to “go in” to the Gaza Strip and “kill them” if they continued their reign of terror over the portions of Gaza that the Israeli military has withdrawn from under the terms of a Trump-brokered peace deal.
“If Hamas continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have no choice but to go in and kill them,” declared Trump in a post on Truth Social, before adding his signature sign-off — “Thank you for your attention to this matter!” — for good measure.
In the days since Israel’s partial withdrawal, Hamas has embarked upon a bloody revenge tour, torturing and executing political opponents and drawing international opprobrium in the process.
From a New York Times dispatch about the ghastly crackdown:
The public execution was captured on video.
Masked gunmen, some wearing green headbands associated with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, lined up eight captives in the middle of a crowded street in Gaza City on Monday. They forced the men to bend over, leveled their rifles at them, and opened fire, leaving their bodies in the dirt.
A Hamas internal security official confirmed that the video, which The New York Times geolocated to Gaza City, showed Hamas fighters executing Palestinian rivals. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to journalists.
The execution took place just days after a cease-fire with Israel began on Friday and Israeli forces pulled back from parts of Gaza. Analysts say that Hamas appears to be trying to assert that it is still the dominant force in the territory, no matter how weakened it is after two years of war with Israel.
Hamas’ actions have been the subject of much discussion in the West. On Wednesday, New York mayoral favorite Zohran Mamdani (D) pointedly refused to call on the terrorist organization to lay down its arms and give up power in spite of the atrocities, earning the ire of pro-Palestinian activists like Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib.
“You should be able to definitively distance the just, and urgent Palestinian people’s aspirations from Hamas,” said Alkhatib while responding to Mamdani on CNN Thursday. “I was very disappointed, very disturbed by the rhetoric. And again, this is symptomatic of a larger trend within the so-called pro-Palestine movement that exists in the diaspora.”
