Trump's 'all hell to pay' ultimatum credited for securing deal to free Israeli hostages: 'Clear message'

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his White House return, a long-awaited Israel-Hamas cease-fire woody is unfolding — offering anticipation to hostage families, contempt immoderate acknowledging it arsenic a "deal with the devil."

"Before President Trump was elected, it [the deal] was stuck," Ronen Neutra, whose lad Omer was killed by Hamas terrorists, told Fox News connected Sunday.

"Let's look it, the information that President Trump had a wide message, 'By my inauguration, I privation to spot hostages coming out, oregon other determination volition beryllium hellhole to pay,’ made a immense interaction successful the Middle East, and we are hopeful that with his leadership, we're going to spot each 98 hostages coming retired starting contiguous with the 3 pistillate hostages."

"We cognize their family, and we are truthful emotionally progressive successful this arsenic good and thrilled to spot them coming out," helium said.

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US President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media pursuing a gathering with Republican Senators astatine the US Capitol successful Washington, DC, US, connected Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025.  (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump promised "all hellhole to pay" if remaining Hamas captives were not released by his inauguration day successful a Truth Social station past year. The connection offered a glimmer of anticipation to immoderate captives' families, including one who called the message "exactly the benignant of connection we were missing."

Ronen and his woman Orna's lad Omer, an IDF vessel platoon commandant and American from Long Island, New York, who had agelong been thought to beryllium 1 of Hamas' captives, was precocious determined to person been murdered by the panic radical connected Oct. 7, 2023.

His parents, who person remained outspoken astir their demands for hostages to beryllium returned safely, program to be Trump's inauguration successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday.

Ahead of the ceremony, pistillate hostages Doron Steinbrecher, Romi Gonen and Emily Damari were released successful signifier 1 of the Israel-Hamas cease-fire woody connected Sunday.

Orna Neutra reacted to the merchandise during the peculiar pre-inaugural Sunday broadcast of "Fox & Friends Weekend."

"We've go 1 family, each the hostage families. We've been going done this brainsick roller coaster of emotions for 15 months now, and we've heard truthful overmuch astir these young women. We've gotten truly adjacent to their families, and we're very, very, precise excited and afloat of anticipation of gathering them and hopefully seeing them rehabilitate and proceed with their lives," she said.

Additional hostage releases are slated to travel with signifier two.

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Palestinians are similarly celebrating the cease-fire woody successful Gaza.

"This is simply a woody with the devil," Ronen Neutra said. "These people, terrorists, killed 1,200 radical successful 1 time — the worst time successful Israeli past since the Holocaust, and they killed, astatine that moment, 45 Americans, truthful of course, it's unspeakable to spot them celebrating close now, but you cognize what? We observe due to the fact that we judge successful the dignity of life. They judge successful the dignity of death, and we judge that each psyche is important. Those are our values, and we'll combat for them, and we'll bring each the 98 radical backmost with the enactment of President Trump."

"We spot him. We cognize helium is going to bash it," helium added. "We cognize he's going to propulsion each the partners successful the region, successful the Middle East, to marque definite that those 98 are coming backmost — among them, our son. We person to bring our lad to a due burial. He deserves it."

Reuters contributed to this report.