US Central Command Issues Warning To Hamas That Contradicts President Trump

 

 by Dave DeCamp | October 15, 2025 at 1:54 pm ET | Gaza

US Central Command on Wednesday issued a statement urging Hamas to stop executing Palestinians in Gaza, contradicting earlier comments from President Trump.

Hamas has carried out executions of alleged criminals and collaborators with Israel, which Trump expressed support for on Tuesday, saying the group was taking out gang members. “That’s OK, it’s a couple of very bad gangs,” the president said.

Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of CENTCOM, said that the US military command was urging “Hamas to immediately suspend violence and shooting at innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza – in both Hamas-held parts of Gaza and those secured by the IDF behind the yellow line.”

According to Israeli media, Hamas has not carried out executions behind the so-called “yellow line,” the term being used for the line that IDF troops withdrew to when the ceasefire went into effect. The Israeli military has killed several Palestinians who the IDF claimed crossed the line, but that was not mentioned in Cooper’s statement.

“This is an historic opportunity for peace. Hamas should seize it by fully standing down, strictly adhering to President Trump’s 20-point peace plan, and disarming without delay,” Cooper said. “We have conveyed our concerns to the mediators who agreed to work with us to enforce the peace and protect innocent Gaza civilians. We remain highly optimistic for the future of peace in the region.”

CENTCOM has sent 200 US troops to Israel to monitor the Gaza ceasefire. The command has also been monitoring a ceasefire in Lebanon, which Israel has flagrantly violated by launching near-daily strikes and carrying out flights over Lebanese territory.

While Trump has expressed support for Hamas’s current armed activity in Gaza, he has also warned that if the group doesn’t disarm itself voluntarily, it will be forced to, “perhaps violently.”

The Gaza ceasefire outline released by the White House called for the “demilitarization” of Gaza, but Hamas officials have maintained they won’t give up their weapons until there is the establishment of a Palestinian state and a Palestinian force that can replace its armed wing.

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Trump Threatens To ‘Go in and Kill’ Hamas Over Internal Clashes

 

Hamas has offered amnesty to armed groups but some Israeli-backed militias and gangs are refusing to disarm

by Dave DeCamp | October 16, 2025 at 4:00 pm ET | Gaza, Israel

President Trump on Thursday threatened that “we” would have to “go in and kill” Hamas in Gaza if the group continues killing alleged criminals and Israeli collaborators, reversing his previous support for Hamas’s armed action.

“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. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” President Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Over the weekend, dozens were killed in clashes between Hamas and other militias in Gaza, and some Palestinians were summarily executed. But it’s unclear if there have been any internal clashes or executions in Gaza in recent days, while Israeli forces have continued to kill Palestinians despite the ceasefire, something Trump hasn’t condemned.

After the clashes, Hamas offered amnesty to members of armed groups and gave them until October 19 to surrender. According to a report from Sky News, at least three anti-Hamas militias that operate in areas of Gaza controlled by the Israeli military are refusing to disarm.

Israel has armed gangs and militias as part of its strategy against Hamas, including a gang led by Yasser Abu Shabab, who is known for looting aid trucks. Some members of the Abu Shabab gang, which controls territory in southern Gaza under the watch of the IDF, have ties to ISIS.

Trump’s comments on Thursday mark a departure from his support for Hamas’s activity in Gaza. He said earlier this week that Hamas had “approval” to reassert control of areas of Gaza to prevent crime and also said the people the group executed were gang members.

“You know, they did take out a couple of gangs that were very bad. Very, very bad gangs, and they did take them out. And they killed a number of gang members, and that didn’t bother me much, to be honest with you. That’s OK, it’s a couple of very bad gangs,” the president said on Tuesday.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/16/trump-threatens-to-go-in-and-kill-hamas-over-internal-clashes/

US Says Hamas Is Not Violating Gaza Ceasefire Deal

 

An advisor to President Trump said Hamas was not expected to release all the remains of deceased Israeli hostages since many are buried under the rubble

by Dave DeCamp | October 15, 2025 at 8:02 pm ET | Gaza

Two senior US officials said on Wednesday that Hamas was not violating the Gaza ceasefire deal, pushing back on Israeli claims that the Palestinian group was in violation of the agreement because it didn’t immediately release all of the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages.

Hamas said on Wednesday that it has released all the remains of Israeli captives that it could access and that the rest need to be recovered from the rubble. Before the ceasefire deal was signed, Israeli officials acknowledged that some of the bodies may not be found, and the agreement established a mechanism for information sharing on the process of retrieving the remains.

“We’ve heard a lot of people saying, well, you know, Hamas violated the deal because not all the bodies have been returned. I think the understanding we had with them was we get all the live hostage hostages out, which they did honor that,” an adviser to President Trump told reporters.

Palestinians walk past the rubble of destroyed buildings, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, October 15, 2025. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj

“And right now, we have a mechanism in place where we’re working closely with the mediators and with them to do our best to get as many bodies out as possible,” the official added.

A second US adviser said that the 72-hour period Hamas had to release the living hostages wasn’t enough time to retrieve the bodies. “In a 72-hour ceasefire period, I think it would have been almost impossible for Hamas to mobilize, even if they knew where all the 28 bodies were, to mobilize and get them home,” the official said.

The US official said that other countries were offering to help retrieve the bodies and that the US was considering offering rewards to Palestinians in Gaza. There are about 10,000 Palestinians who have been reported missing in Gaza who are presumed dead under the rubble. “On top of all that debris is a lot of unexploded ordinance, and presumably, under that… there are many bodies,” the second US official said.

So far, Hamas has released nine out of 28 of the bodies. Israel has reportedly reversed its threat to halve the number of aid trucks entering Gaza and is expected to open the Rafah crossing on Thursday, though at this point it remains unclear how much aid is actually entering the Strip. Cutting aid is a clear violation of the ceasefire deal, and Israeli troops also continue to kill Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel has also sent the remains of about 45 unidentified Palestinians into Gaza. According to a report from Middle East Eye, the bodies show signs of torture, execution, and being run over by tanks.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/10/15/us-says-hamas-is-not-violating-gaza-ceasefire-deal/

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Trump wants to fund Ukraine’s war with tariffs on China. In other words, he’ll make American importers pay higher prices, so he can pretend China paid for it. Meanwhile, China already decoupled, exports to the US dropped from 20% to under 9%, and quietly shifted 70% of its trade to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. America is fighting a war financed by illusion,. the perfect metaphor for an empire that mistakes taxation for triumph.

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