Netanyahu: 'No future' in Gaza unless 'Hamas destroyed' amid concern for hostages

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu connected Friday warned that the lone mode Gaza tin spot a peaceful aboriginal is if Hamas is "destroyed," though the pugnacious rhetoric retired of Washington this week has hostage families, and astatine slightest 1 erstwhile hostage, acrophobic that it could jeopardize the harmless instrumentality of the hostages inactive held by the violent group.

"I was profoundly moved by the reception that we got, the substantive things that we discussed, making definite that Iran ne'er gets a atomic weapon, and besides making definite that Hamas is destroyed," Netanyahu said successful notation to his meetings with President Trump and lawmakers connected the Hill. "We're not going to person a aboriginal for Gaza oregon for a aboriginal for bid successful our portion of the satellite if Hamas remains there."

Netanyahu’s comments came conscionable 3 days aft Trump sent geopolitical shockwaves by announcing his expected plans for the U.S. to "take over" the Gaza Strip and called for the wide removal of millions of Palestinians surviving there.

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shingle hands astatine the Israel Museum successful Jerusalem. Trump has promised determination volition beryllium "hell to pay" if hostages being held by Hamas are not released anterior to erstwhile helium takes bureau connected Jan. 20.  (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Netanyahu, who spoke alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson from the U.S. Capitol and championed their "warm idiosyncratic bond," did not instrumentality immoderate questions from the press.

Hamas, on with dozens of different nations successful the Middle East and crossed the globe, not lone rejected the plans but connected Friday delayed the merchandise of names for the adjacent circular of hostages acceptable to beryllium freed connected Saturday nether the agreements of the ceasefire deal.

Following an hours-long delay, Hamas connected Friday said it would merchandise Eli Sharabi, 52, Or Levy, 34, and Ohad Ben Ami, 56, the Times of Israel reported. 

Sharabi was taken from Kibbutz Beeri portion his woman and daughters were killed successful their harmless room. Levy was taken from the Supernova euphony festival wherever his woman was killed. Ami was taken alongside his woman from Kibbutz Beeri, and his woman Raz Ben Ami was freed successful the November 2023 hostage deal. 

The delay came arsenic reports suggested that families of the hostages inactive held successful Gaza, arsenic good arsenic mediators progressive successful the ceasefire talks, person grown acrophobic the comments coming from the Trump-Netanyahu gathering could derail the continued merchandise of hostages. 

Just 13 of the 33 hostages slated to beryllium released during the archetypal signifier of the ceasefire person been freed. 

At slightest 8 of the hostages scheduled to beryllium returned during the archetypal 42 days were confirmed by the IDF to have been killed portion successful Hamas activity, though the fates of Shiri Bibas and her 2 children, Ariel who was 4 years aged erstwhile helium was abducted alongside his member Kfir, who was 9 months old, stay chartless contempt claims by Hamas that they were killed by an Israeli airstrike. 

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The Bibas family, from left: Yarden, Ariel, Shiri, and Kfir. (Ofri Bibas Levy)

At slightest 9 hostages are inactive believed to beryllium live who are scheduled to beryllium released successful the archetypal round, portion the merchandise of the remaining 65 hostages, astatine slightest 26 of whom are believed to besides person been killed, volition beryllium negotiated for merchandise pursuing the archetypal 42-day period. 

Reports person indicated that officials are inactive acceptable to question to Qatar connected Saturday to statesman negotiations for the 2nd signifier of the ceasefire – a process that was delayed 1 week.

A spokesperson for Netanyahu connected Friday said that the premier curate views Hamas’ hold successful releasing the names of the hostages intended to beryllium released connected Saturday arsenic "serious" and a "violation" of the ceasefire agreement. 

The premier minister’s bureau confirmed to Fox News Digital that helium volition beryllium monitoring the 5th hostage merchandise scheduled for Saturday from Washington, D.C., wherever helium volition stay done the weekend. 

Hamas has named Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel and Ofer Kalderon arsenic the adjacent 3 hostages to beryllium released. (The Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

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Reports this week suggested that Netanyahu had presented Trump with a program to extremity the warfare successful Gaza successful speech for assurances from Hamas that it would relinquish its powerfulness successful the war-torn portion and that its leaders would spell into exile.

Netanyahu’s bureau denied these claims to Fox News Digital.