{"id":35445,"date":"2024-12-03T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35445"},"modified":"2024-12-03T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T03:23:09","slug":"trump-threatens-hell-to-pay-if-gaza-hostages-not-released-before-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35445","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens &#8220;HELL TO PAY&#8221; if Gaza hostages not released before inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">President-elect Trump threatened on Monday that if&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/30\/hamas-video-us-hostage-gaza-trump-deal\"><u>hostages held by Hamas<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;in Gaza are not released&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/29\/trump-gaza-ceasefire-hostage-deal\"><u>before his inauguration<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;&#8220;there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong>&nbsp;This is the first time since he won the election that Trump has weighed in publicly on the hostages that are being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/27\/biden-netanyahu-gaza-hostage-ceasefire-deal-lebanon\"><u>held in Gaza<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The hostage families hope that his involvement both in private and in public could lead to a breakthrough in the stalled negotiations for their release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Driving the news:&nbsp;<\/strong>Trump&#8217;s statement in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/113584730902816413\"><u>a post<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;on Truth Social came a few hours after the IDF announced that Omer Neutra, an American-Israeli hostage held by Hamas,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>had died during the Oct. 7 attack and that his body was taken to Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">For more than 420 days, Neutra&#8217;s family didn&#8217;t have any information on whether he was dead or alive.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A senior Israeli intelligence official said the determination was made after IDF obtained new information that established the fact that Neutra had been killed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/world\/israel\"><u>Hamas<\/u><\/a>\u00a0released a video on Saturday with proof of life from U.S. citizen Edan Alexander, who is also being held hostage in Gaza, who called<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>on Trump to negotiate for his release.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Axios in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/11\/29\/trump-gaza-ceasefire-hostage-deal\"><u>an interview<\/u><\/a>\u00a0that Trump wants to see a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza before he assumes office on Jan. 20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>What they&#8217;re saying:<\/strong>&nbsp;Trump wrote on Truth Social that the hostages &#8220;are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will&#8221; and threatened &#8220;ALL HELL TO PAY&#8221; if they are not released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He added: &#8220;Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Earlier on Monday, President Biden issued a statement expressing condolences to Neutra&#8217;s family.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;To all the families of those still held hostage: We see you. We are with you. And I will not stop working to bring your loved ones back home where they belong,&#8221; Biden said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ronen and Orna Neutra, parents of Omer Neutra, said in a statement they demand action and not words in order to bring the hostages back home.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;We call upon the Israeli government to work with President Biden and President-elect Trump, to use all of their leverage and resources to return all 101 hostages \u2014 living and the deceased \u2014 to their families as soon as possible,&#8221; they said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/12\/02\/trump-hostages-gaza-omer-neutra\">axios<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Trump threatened on Monday that if&nbsp;hostages held by Hamas&nbsp;in Gaza are not released&nbsp;before his inauguration&nbsp;&#8220;there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge.&#8221; Why it matters:&nbsp;This is the first time since he won the election that Trump has weighed in publicly on the hostages that are being&nbsp;held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1151,3659,31439,5419,1230],"class_list":["post-35445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-gaza","tag-hostage","tag-inauguration","tag-threat","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35447,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35445\/revisions\/35447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}