"Asked if he and Netanyahu had discussed Israel pulling back troops before Hamas fully disarmed, Trump told reporters: If they don't disarm as they agreed to do they agreed to it then there'll be hell to pay for them and we don't want that, we're not looking for that. But they have to disarm within a fairly short period of time. He described the question of Israel withdrawing its forces as a separate subject, adding only: We'll talk about that."
"But Trump himself appeared to show no such qualms after Monday's meeting. He said he was not concerned about anything that Israel is doing and Israel has lived up to the plan, 100%. He repeatedly pointed the finger at Hamas, saying it'll be horrible for them if they failed to disarm. It's going to be really, really bad for them, and I don't want that to happen. But they made an agreement that they were going to disarm. And you couldn't blame Israel, he said."
Donald Trump warned that Hamas will face 'hell to pay' if it fails to disarm and demanded that disarmament occur within a fairly short period. Trump expressed full-throated support for Benjamin Netanyahu during a Mar-a-Lago meeting and praised Israel as having 'lived up to the plan, 100%.' Netanyahu announced that the Israel prize would be awarded to Trump, marking the first time a non-Israeli would receive the country's highest civilian honour. US officials are pressing Israel to make concessions to enable the second phase of a Gaza peace plan and to allow the establishment of a Palestinian technocratic government and the ISF.
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