Tension rises to the Middle East, where the truce between Israel and Hamas, in force since January 19 for six weeks, is more fragile than ever. After Donald Trump promised “hell” in Hamas if he did not release “all the hostages” selected in Gaza before Saturday “at 12 noon”, Israel threatened Tuesday to resume “intense fights” in the band of Gaza if the hostages were not released by this date. Hamas, for its part, claims to remain “attached” to the ceasefire agreement.
In the background, Donald Trump’s plan for American control of the Gaza Strip, emptied of its inhabitants, never ceases to cause turmoil. Received at the White House, King Abdallah II of Jordan again expressed his “firm opposition” yesterday with any movement of the Palestinians.
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⇒ The King of Jordan reiterated his “firm opposition” to any movement of Palestinians
⇒ Donald Trump does not believe that Hamas will respect the deadline on Saturday to release the hostages
⇒ The Israeli army sends additional reinforcements around Gaza
The King of Jordan repeated his “firm opposition” to any movement of Palestinians
King Abdallah II of Jordan reiterated his “firm opposition” to the displacement of the population of Gaza after his meeting on Tuesday with Donald Trump, who still defended his widely criticized plan of real estate development of the Palestinian territory emptied of its inhabitants. In front of the cameras, the sovereign was careful not to tackle the subject head in the presence of the American president. “One of the things we can do immediately is to take 2,000 children, children with cancer or very sick,” he said. “It’s really a beautiful gesture,” said Donald Trump, sitting alongside his guest and Crown Prince Hussein in the oval office.
But on X, Abdallah II then assured that he had expressed to the American president his “firm opposition to the displacement of Palestinians in Gaza and in the” occupied “, stressing that it was a” common Arab position “. “I insisted on the fact that my supreme commitment was Jordan, its stability and the well-being of the Jordanians,” added the monarch, allusion to the years of tensions or even armed clashes which, in the context of the Israeli conflict -Palestinian, marked the history of the kingdom.
Donald Trump nevertheless predicted “great progress” in discussions both with Jordan and with Egypt, and said he was confident “may not be 100 %, but 99 %” arrive at a compromise with Cairo. He once again defended his project for Gaza, who raised international indignation: “We are going to have Gaza. We don’t need to buy it. There is nothing to buy,” said Donald Trump , ensuring that the territory would be placed “under American control”, without explaining how.
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In addition to the Jordanian king, the secretary general of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, judged this Wednesday “unacceptable for the Arab world” to move the Palestinians of their territory. “We, the Arabs, fought this idea for a hundred years and we are not ready to capitulate now,” he said before the World Summit of Governments organized in Dubai, in response to a question about the insistence of the American president Donald Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its inhabitants.
Donald Trump does not believe that Hamas will respect the deadline on Saturday to release the hostages
Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he did not believe that Hamas would respect the deadline on Saturday to release Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip, after promising real “hell” on Monday if it was not the case. “I have the deadline on Saturday, but I don’t think he (will act before) the deadline,” the American president told the White House by receiving King Abdallah II of Jordan.
Hamas, for its part, said that he remained “attached to the agreement” of Truce with Israel, accusing him of missing his commitments after the Israeli Prime Minister threatened the Islamist Palestinian movement of “Intense fights” in case non-liberation of hostages on Saturday. “Hamas is attached to the truce agreement to which the occupation [Israël, NDLR] has subscribed and which has been sponsored and guaranteed by the mediators (Egypt, Qatar, United States), and whose international community is witness, “wrote the movement in a press release.” We confirm that the occupation is the part which n ‘did not keep its commitments and which is responsible for complications and delays, “adds the text.
The far -right Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich called Benyamin Netanyahu to follow the advice of Donald Trump and to demand from Hamas the liberation of “all” hostages. This requirement goes further than the terms of the truce agreement, which provides for the release of 33 hostages in total during the first phase, in exchange for 1,900 Palestinians.
Israel: the army announces additional reinforcements around Gaza
The Israeli army announced on Tuesday evening additional reinforcements, “including reservists” around the Gaza strip, while the truce entered into force on January 19 appears weakened. “In accordance with the situation assessment and the decision to increase the level of alert in the South Military Region, it was decided to increase the reinforcements with additional troops, including reservists,” said a press release military. As of Monday, Israel had mobilized troops around the Gaza Strip, ordering them to prepare for all scenarios.