Hamas, Israeli and Arab officials have already warned that the ceasefire is at a breaking point and Trump’s radical intervention could stoke fears that Washington does not have any intent to continue with the phased deal
A Hamas spokesperson cited past Israeli violations for halting the exchanges but the militant group’s threat to suspend hostage releases comes against a backdrop of increasingly hardline US and Israeli positions about the long-term future of the strip
Jordan and Egypt
Trump also said that he could “conceivably” withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt – some of the US’s closest allies in the region – unless they agreed to his plan for the US in what would amount to an effective ethnic cleansing, 1. to “take over” Gaza and 2. to relocate millions of Palestinians to the neighbouring states
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“If they don’t agree, I would conceivably withhold it” [the aid]
Trump's threat came after Egypt in a statement issued earlier Monday after foreign minister Badr Abdelatty met with his US counterpart in Washington,
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rejected any compromise that would infringe on Palestinians’ rights
