WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The U.S. State Department said Saturday it has “credible reports” that Hamas could carry out an attack on Palestinian civilians in Gaza, a move the department said would violate the current ceasefire.
If the attack occurs, it “would constitute a direct and grave violation” of the agreement forged by President Donald Trump to end the two-year war between Israel and Hamas, the State Department said. No further details about the potential attack were disclosed.
”Should Hamas proceed with this attack, measures will be taken to protect the people of Gaza and preserve the integrity of the ceasefire,” the State Department added.
President Trump previously warned on social media, “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.” He later clarified he would not send U.S. troops into Gaza after issuing the threat.
“It’s not going to be us,” he told reporters. “We won’t have to. There are people very close, very nearby that will go in and they’ll do the trick very easily, but under our auspices.”
Trump’s comments marked a shift from earlier remarks in which he downplayed Hamas killings, saying they had taken out “a couple of gangs that were very bad.”
Edgardo Hernal started college at UP Diliman and received his BA in Economics from San Sebastian College, Manila, and Masters in Information Systems Management from Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University in Oak Brook, IL. He has 25 years of copy editing and management experience at Thomson West, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters.
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