Trump: The ceasefire in Gaza is not in danger.. and he renews his threat to "Hamas"

U.S. President Donald Trump commented today, Wednesday, on the intense Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom of at least 63 Palestinians, believing that the ceasefire agreement is not in danger.

Trump said in remarks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea: "The U.S.-backed ceasefire is not in danger, and nothing will threaten the ceasefire in Gaza."

He continued, saying: "They killed an Israeli soldier, and therefore the Israelis responded, and they had to respond. When that happens, they must respond."

The U.S. president reiterated his threat to Hamas, stating: "If we have to, we will remove Hamas from the equation, and that will be the end of it. We prefer not to do that, because we made an agreement with them that they are supposed to behave well under, and they must behave well. If they do not behave well, they will disappear," as he put it.

On Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, at least 63 Palestinians were martyred, including 24 children, and others were injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting various areas in the Gaza Strip, as part of the escalating violations by the occupation of the ceasefire agreement.

On Tuesday evening, the official Hebrew broadcasting authority claimed that "gunmen (whose identities were not specified) fired anti-tank missiles and sniper fire" at Israeli soldiers in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, while the Hebrew newspaper "Maariv" claimed that the last hours witnessed intense exchanges of fire between the Israeli occupation army and elements of the "Hamas" movement in the Al-Janine neighborhood east of Rafah.

Later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered, according to a statement from his office, the army to launch "strong attacks immediately on the Gaza Strip," while Hamas denied in a statement any connection to the gunfire in Rafah, affirming its commitment to the ceasefire agreement, and that the Israeli bombardment is a blatant violation of the agreement, and "confirms the insistence on violating the terms of the agreement and attempting to undermine it."

They called on the mediators guaranteeing the agreement to "take immediate action to pressure the occupation, curb its brutal escalation against civilians in the Gaza Strip, stop its serious violations of the ceasefire agreement, and hold it accountable to all its terms."

On October 10, Hamas and the Israeli occupation reached a prisoner exchange and ceasefire agreement, mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey, and sponsored by U.S. President Donald Trump as part of a multi-phase plan.

Since that date until Tuesday before the airstrikes on Tuesday evening, the occupation army committed 125 violations of the agreement, resulting in the martyrdom of 94 Palestinians, the injury of 344 others, and the arrest of 21, according to the government media office in Gaza.

The Israeli genocide war, supported by the U.S., since October 8, 2023, has resulted in 68,531 Palestinian martyrs and 170,402 wounded, most of them children and women, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.