Trump Says Hamas Leaders to be ‘Hunted Down’ After Terror Group Rejects Hostage Deal
Prime Minister Netanyahu: “Together with our U.S. allies, we are now considering alternative options to bring our hostages home.”
After Hamas rejected a U.S.-backed hostage deal, President Donald Trump slammed the terrorist group for having no intention of negotiating a ceasefire agreement, adding that its leaders in Gaza “are going to be hunted down.”
“They pulled out of the negotiations, which was very unfortunate,” President Trump said. “Hamas never really wanted a deal. I think they want to die, and that’s very bad. We’ve reached a point where the job needs to be finished.”
“They walked away from the talks, and now there will be fighting. We’ll need to clean them out. We’ll need to get rid of them,” he added.
The president made those remarks at the White House on Friday, a day after the U.S. Middle East peace envoy, Steve Witkoff, recalled the hostage negotiating team from Doha, Qatar. Israel also called back its negotiators following Hamas’s rejection.
The Times of Israel reported Trump’s remarks:
US President Donald Trump asserts that the Hamas terror group “didn’t want to make a deal” on a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza.
Speaking to reporters in Washington before departing for a trip to Scotland, Trump says that with only a small number of hostages remaining, Hamas “doesn’t have any bargaining chips” left to negotiate.
“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,” he says.
He adds that he believes that now the group’s leaders are “going to be hunted down.”
Netanyahu: U.S., Israel working on “alternative options to bring our hostages home.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Friday, echoed President Trump’s sentiments, saying that the U.S. and Israel were working on “alternative options to bring our hostages home.”
“Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff got it right,” he said. “Hamas is the obstacle to a hostage release deal. Together with our U.S. allies, we are now considering alternative options to bring our hostages home, end Hamas’s terror rule, and secure lasting peace for Israel and our region,” he added.
The statement suggests that Israel could count on Washington’s backing for its military efforts to free the remaining hostages and eliminate Hamas as a terrorist fighting force in Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff got it right. Hamas is the obstacle to a hostage release deal.
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) July 25, 2025
IDF eliminates Hamas’s domestic spy chief
With Hamas rejecting ceasefire talks, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) kept up the pressure on Hamas, operating in several terrorist strongholds across Gaza.
The Israeli “ground troops are continuing to operate against the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip,” the military said in a statement Friday. “IDF troops are continuing their operational activity in the northern Gaza Strip, operating in the areas of Beit Hanoun, Jabaliya, and Daraj Tuffahm.”
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) was backing the ground operation. “Over the past day, in cooperation with ground forces, the IAF struck dozens of terror targets in the Gaza Strip, including terrorist cells, military structures, tunnels, anti-tank missile launch posts, weapons storage facilities, and additional terrorist infrastructure sites,” the IDF statement said.
The IDF eliminated the chief of Hamas’s domestic spying operation, delivering another blow to the terrorist group’s existing leadership. “Earlier this week [Wednesday], the IDF struck and eliminated in the northern Gaza Strip the terrorist Amjad Muhammad Hassan Shaer, head of the Counterintelligence Directorate in Hamas’ General Security Apparatus,” the military announced Friday.
Hamas’s Counterintelligence Directorate not only suppresses dissidents and opponents inside Gaza, but also helps in plotting and executing terrorist attacks, the IDF explained. “The Counterintelligence Directorate is responsible for suppressing opposition to Hamas’ rule, thwarting espionage against the terrorist organization, and securing senior officials and assets of the terrorist organization within the Gaza Strip and outside of it. The directorate represents a vital part of Hamas’ General Security Apparatus, which is responsible, among other things, for building an intelligence assessment that assists senior Hamas officials in decision-making and executing terror attacks against the State of Israel,” the IDF statement added.
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but epsteinnnnnnn
good job djt!!
the world loves trump but wont admit it
Time to get medieval on their asses!
Couldn’t happen to a more swell bunch of guys!
speaking of blmplo
michigan joins a few more states in making it ILLEGAL to wear masks
so just a few years back…..wear masks or face jail time
now its…wear masks and face jail time
WHILE WE ARE LOOKING TO HUNT DOWN hamz…start getting rid of their brothers-in-arms in the usa vote them out
BUT FIRST DEFUND THE DEMS
no more tax money
Democrat fundraising has tanked since their NGO lifeline was exposed and then defunded! Democrats really do have their backs against the wall.
This is Trump’s third “Or else” to Hamas so I don’t think they are going to tremble very much.
That will be their problem then, yes? He sounds quite serious this time. Can’t say he did not give them every opportunity.
No trembling, unless they die slowly.
The 20 hostages are what keeps the IDF from finally moving in to eliminate Hamas.
The Sits Krieg is Israel not Trump. Trump has been an extremely reliable ally.
Meanwhile France goes in the opposite direction 🙄
France displays totally shameful, feckless and emasculated dhimmitude, transparently intended as meat to placate its domestic cohort of goose-stepping, genocidal, Jew-hating Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists.
Utterly despicable. The U.K., Ireland, Spain, Canada, Australia, Sweden and the Netherlands are headed in the same hellish direction.
Force the f’g turks and qatars to surrender the hamas leader residing there. Enough f’g around. If they won’t then sanction them severely.
Macron certainly didn’t help the situation at all.
The nice part is we don’t have to do much, just stand back and let Israel do what’s got to be done
The deal is Israel wipes Hamas out, Hamas gets nothing. This is the end.
Sorry actually meant for general comment.
If this was an operation of the U.S. Army Hamas would have long since been extirpated.
If Israel wants to continue to exist and not be a pariah state circling the extinction it will eliminate Hamas immediately and try to rescue the hostages by force in the process.
There is no indefinite siege of Gaza consistent with Israel not being eliminated due to Pariah state decline, and there is no withdrawal without victory consistent with that not happening (The state that tried to commit genocide is at best a pariah).
Sorry but it really is past time for Israel to win. If they need a coach for it they could ask Trump who has correctly given Israel the advice it needs.
Israel should get it done fast. This “water torture” approach seems silly. Simple demographics likely gives Hamas 10-20 thousand new fighters every year. You can see the result, with the IDF having to go back again and again to previous places.
I couldn’t agree more
every last one
Hunt down the Hamas leaders wherever they are. Qatar, Turkey, Iran, France, UK, USA, etc.