US President Donald Trump called on Friday for a "tough stance" against the Gaza Strip, as noon on Saturday is set for the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli detainees under a ceasefire agreement that began on January 19 with Egyptian, Qatari and American mediation.

Hamas announced last week that it had suspended the prisoner exchange because of Israel's violation of the terms of the ceasefire agreement by not fulfilling its obligations to bring in mobile homes and humanitarian aid, and threatened not to release more detainees, which sparked American and Israeli threats to resume the war by Israel, which called up reserve forces and put its forces on high alert.

Trump declared this week that Hamas must release all Israeli hostages in Gaza by noon Saturday or "let all hell break loose."

"I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow (Saturday) at 12 noon; if it were up to me, I would take a very tough position but I can't tell you what Israel is going to do," Trump told reporters on Friday, in what experts interpreted as an invitation for Israel to continue the war.

Hamas announced that it would implement its part of the deal, after Israel brought in aid that had been held at the crossings, and announced the names of the Israeli detainees who will be released according to the agreement, namely Yair Horn, Sagi Dekel Han and Sasha Alexander Trubnov from Gaza on Saturday after Egyptian and Qatari mediators helped avert a crisis that threatened to collapse the fragile ceasefire that has halted the fighting for 26 days so far.

The movement said the three would be released in exchange for 369 Palestinian prisoners, reducing fears that the deal could collapse before the end of the first phase of a 42-day ceasefire.

Trump has announced more than once that he wants to control the Gaza Strip and remove Palestinian citizens from it, where they will be resettled (according to Trump’s plan) in Egypt and Jordan, so that he can rebuild it and make it the Riviera of the Middle East, according to him, which has caused American and international condemnations, as uprooting a people from their land and forcing them to leave is considered ethnic cleansing and a war crime condemned internationally.