Hamas carries out public executions — just hours after peace treaty signing

Hamas carried out mass public executions in Gaza on Monday, gruesome video shows — as the bloodthirsty terror group desperately seeks to maintain control over the Palestinian enclave and punish those it deems “collaborators with Israel.”

The barbaric reprisal came just hours after President Trump declared the “end of an age of terror and death” and signed a document enshrining his 20-point peace plan.

The graphic footage shows eight badly beaten, blindfolded men kneeling in the street before each is shot dead by Hamas gunmen in front of a cheering crowd.

The terror group said, without providing evidence, that the killings targeted “criminals and collaborators with Israel,” the BBC reported.

Among those killed was Ahmad Zidan al-Tarabin, reportedly responsible for recruiting agents to a rival non-Hamas-aligned militia, Israeli outlet ynet News reported.

Following the IDF’s withdrawal, Hamas has quickly looked to reassert its control over Gaza, targeting the “clans,” or family-based armed groups that had gained strength during the conflict.

The Palestinian terror group began its deadly reprisals before the peace deal was even signed.

On Sunday, 52 members of the powerful Dagmoush clan were killed in clashes with Hamas’ internal security forces, while 12 Hamas terrorists, including the son of senior official Bassem Naim, also died, according to reports in Gaza.

Hamas militants reportedly used ambulances to storm the neighborhood of the clan, whom they accused of collaboration with Israel.

“It’s a massacre. They’re dragging people away, children are screaming and dying, they’re burning our houses. What did we do wrong?” one clan member’s daughter told Ynet News.

Earlier on Monday, President Trump suggested he had given Hamas approval to manage internal security in Gaza “as it sees fit,” as part of a peace deal to return the remaining living hostages to Israel.

“They [Hamas] do want to stop the problems, and they’ve been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time,” he told a reporter on Air Force One.

“You have close to 2 million people going back to buildings that have been demolished, and a lot of bad things can happen. So we want it to be — we want it to be safe. I think it’s going to be fine. Who knows for sure,” he said.

However, Trump vowed Tuesday that “we will disarm” Hamas if the group did not lay down its weapons pursuant to his 20-point peace plan.

“Well, they’re going to disarm because they said they were going to disarm, and if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them,” Trump told journalists while hosting visiting Argentine President Javier Milei.

“I don’t have to explain that to you, but if they don’t disarm, we will disarm them. They know I’m not playing games. Okay?”

Under Trump’s peace plan, Hamas was expected to disarm and surrender governance of Gaza, something the terror group has refused to do.

Trump has done the impossible in Gaza, and the media still sneer

 

G-d bless President Trump.

The leader of the free world has achieved the seemingly impossible. He has freed from the clutches of terrorists in Gaza the last remaining Jewish hostages who’ve endured more than two years of extreme physical and psychological torture.

The president of the United States has brought to heel Hamas, a group of murderous madmen bent on destroying not only the captives’ beloved nation of Israel, but an entire people: innocent Jews.

They failed.

The 20 freed souls were nearly starved to death, held in tunnels underground, deprived even of sufficient water. Stripped of humanity. Devoid of hope.

Somehow, they survived.

There is joy throughout Israel and around the world, but also sorrow and excruciating pain. In exchange for the release of a few dozen people, including the remains of murdered hostages, Hamas ghouls are getting back some 2,000 of their own prisoners held in Israeli custody, some of them cold-blooded killers.

Or, as one random Middle Eastern commentator in the Jew-hating media — I’m talking about NBC News — shamelessly described the freed terrorist fighters early Monday, as I watched in horror, “hostages.”

Yes, Hamas calls its own jailed savages “hostages,” and the terror group’s media conspirators fall in line.

NBC, in fact, deliberately ignored Israelis cheering Trump for securing a peace deal with Hamas that brought home the survivors and bodies of the dead, as Vice President JD Vance rightly complained on the TV network’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.

At other outlets including CNN and MSNBC, it was just as bad. But the New York Times may have outdone them all, publishing a “news analysis” last week that begged understanding for the vicious fiends. It bore this astonishing headline:

Hamas Takes a Big Risk in Deal to Release Hostages.

Subhead:

The Palestinian militant group is giving up much of the leverage it has with Israel, with no guarantee some of its main demands will be met.

My heart bleeds.

As the long, horrific nightmare draws to a close, the oppressors continue to put themselves on even footing with the more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign visitors they’ve slaughtered, raped, tortured or held for years.

This libel is parroted uncritically by the useful media idiots. It’s unlikely to stop. But we know the truth.

Today, there is celebration amid the mourning. There is pride amid the anger. There is life. And every life is precious.

Meanwhile, many Palestinian people are now daring to join Israelis in cheering Trump for freeing them from Hamas’ iron grip. For ending their suffering as well. For bringing them peace.

Addressing Israel’s parliament Monday, the US president sounded energized, cordial and victorious. In just scant weeks, Trump engineered a laying down of arms, ending, we can only hope forever, a conflict that had dogged the region for many years.

He’d brought on board the governments of other Muslim-majority nations that are sick and tired of terrorists’ stranglehold on the beleaguered Gaza Strip.

Trump helped convince them to pressure Hamas to give up on this thankless war with Israel, and allow the Palestinians, as well as the rest of those in the Middle East, to live without fear of looting and extreme violence committed by the thugs who controlled the area.

It seemed impossible. Trump made it reality.

In coming days and years, decent people will mourn the dead. Former hostages will begin traveling the long road to recovery. Normal life should return to Gaza.

Trump made it happen.

Will the media, the Democrats and his critics ever put their hate aside to thank him?

by Andrea Peyser NYP

CNN’s Amanpour claims hostages were treated better than Gazans

CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour issued an apology Monday after sparking outrage for suggesting that Israeli hostages held by Hamas were “probably being treated better than the average Gazan.”

The comment, made during a live broadcast following the release of 20 Israeli hostages by Hamas, was widely condemned online. Amanpour had attempted to explain the difference in treatment between hostages and Gaza residents, stating, “It’s been a terrible, terrible two years for them, because not only are they there - you know, they’re probably being treated better than the average Gazan, because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had.”

The remark quickly went viral and circulated on social media, prompting fierce backlash of the veteran host. Critics accused Amanpour of siding with Hamas and downplaying the suffering of hostages.

Richard Grenell, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy and head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, wrote on X, “She’s literally pro-Hamas,” and accused her of being a “Republican hating activist.”

Omri Ceren, senior adviser to Senator Ted Cruz, said Amanpour is “on the side of genocidal Hamas terrorists”.

Antisemitism activist Eyal Yakoby called the comment “absolutely unacceptable from CNN,” citing the case of hostage Evyatar David, who was “quite literally forced to dig his own grave.”

In a subsequent statement on her show and on X, Amanpour said, “Earlier live on air, I spoke about what a day of real joy this is, for Israeli families whose loved ones are finally being returned from two years of horrific Hamas captivity, and for civilians in Gaza, who have finally had a reprieve from two years of brutal, deadly war.”

She continued, “I noted that for the hostages who are finally home, it will take a long time for them to recover mentally and physically. But I regret also saying that they may have been treated better than many Gazans because Hamas used these hostages as pawns and bargaining chips. It was insensitive and wrong.”

Amanpour emphasized her prior conversations with hostage families, saying she had been “horrified at what Hamas has subjected them to over two long years.” She added: “They've told me their stories of barely being able to breathe in the tunnels, not being allowed to cry, being starved and made to dig their own graves - and of course today, some of the hostages are coming back in body bags.”

This is not the first time that Amanpour has made controversial remarks related to Israel.

Two years ago, Amanpour caused an uproar after saying on her program that terror victims Lucy Dee, and her daughters Rina and Maia were “killed in a shootout” rather than stating they were murdered in a terrorist attack. She later apologized to the family’s father, Rabbi Leo Dee.

In 2013, during an interview with then-Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, she insisted on referring to Judea and Samaria as the “occupied West Bank”, claiming that the term was “an international term”.

Bennett stressed in his response, “One cannot occupy his own home.”

A similar incident occurred in 2022 when Bennett, this time as Prime Minister, gave an interview to Amanpour, during which she asserted that “the West Bank has been occupied since 1967”.

Two years earlier, Amanpour caused an uproar when she called the Trump presidency an “assault” on human civilization comparable to that carried out by Nazi Germany during the Kristallnacht pogroms in 1938.

The Israeli government demanded an apology from CNN over the comparison. Amanpour ultimately apologized for the comparison, saying, “Hitler and his evils stand alone, of course, in history. I regret any pain my statement may have caused. My point was to say how democracy can potentially slip away, and how we must always zealously guard our democratic values.”

 

Trump: 'Hamas will disarm, and if they won't, we will disarm them'

 

US President Donald Trump addressed the next phases of the Gaza peace plan, which began with a ceasefire and the return of all of the living hostages who remained in captivity yesterday.

Speaking to the media today (Tuesday), President Trump stated that "they will disarm because they said they are going to disarm. And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them."

"They know I'm not playing games," he added of Hamas.

Addressing the release of the hostages, he stated: "We did something monumental - we got the hostages back. That was the first thing we had to do, above all else, get the hostages back. They misrepresented, because we were told that they had 26-24 of dead hostages, if we can use those terms. It seems they don't have that, because we're talking about a much lesser number. That's a very tough subject. I want them back."

Turning back to the issue of Hamas's disarmament, Trump stated: "They will disarm. And if they don't disarm, we will disarm them - and it'll happen quickly and, perhaps, violently, but they will disarm."

"I spoke to Hamas, and I said, 'Well, you're going to disarm, right?' 'Yes, sir, we're going to disarm.' That's what they told me. They will disarm, or we will disarm them," Trump said.

Earlier on Tuesday, President Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: "ALL TWENTY HOSTAGES ARE BACK AND FEELING AS GOOD AS CAN BE EXPECTED. A big burden has been lifted, but the job IS NOT DONE. THE DEAD HAVE NOT BEEN RETURNED, AS PROMISED! Phase Two begins right NOW!!! President DJT"

Satmar's Candidate for Mayor, Mamdani's Wife Mourns Death of Palestinian Influencer Saleh al-Jafarawi

 Rama Duwaji, wife of New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani, coddled in Satmar Sukka, expressed public grief over the death of Palestinian influencer Saleh al-Jafarawi, who was killed Sunday amid clashes between Hamas and rival factions in Gaza.

Duwaji shared an Instagram Story mourning the 27-year-old, known to Israeli media as “Mr. FAFO,” posting four broken-heart emojis alongside a tribute. Al-Jafarawi had gained notoriety for celebrating the October 7, 2023, attacks in Israel while documenting the Gaza conflict, amassing a large following on social media.

His death has drawn mixed reactions. Many Israelis condemned him as a Hamas propagandist, while some pro-Palestinian activists, including Duwaji, marked his passing with sorrow.

Duwaji’s public mourning has reignited discussion about the influence of social media figures in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the political visibility of those connected to public officials.

Trump in his speech in Knesset Asks Herzog to Pardon Netanyahu

 

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Last living hostages all released after 738 days in Hamas hell

They’re free.

All living hostages in Gaza were released by Hamas Monday — with all 20 reportedly walking to Red Cross trucks under their own power following a historic cease-fire deal forced by President Trump.

The first seven hostages returned to Israel around 2:30 a.m. ET Monday after being transported out of the Palestinian territory by Red Cross trucks. The remaining 13 hostages were released by Hamas hours later.

Emotional scenes emerged as the hostages spoke to family members for the first time after 738 days in Hamas hell.

Twin brothers Gali and Ziv Berman, who were kept apart for two years, embraced as they were finally reunited.

Mothers and fathers sobbed as they saw their sons for the first time in video calls. In person reunions were expected later on Monday.

The bodies of 28 other hostages are still in the Palestinian enclave and are expected to be released over the next several days.

The survivors’ two-year nightmare is finally ending following Israel’s devastating war, which was meant to crush Hamas and free the captives.

More than 250 hostages were originally taken during the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks on southern Israel.

The captives endured horrific conditions, according to survivors who were released as part of previous deals or rescued by the Israel Defense Forces. They reported being tortured, raped and starved.

One hostage, Evyatar David, was forced to dig his own grave as part of a sick Hamas propaganda video released in August, which showed him extremely gaunt.

In September 2024, Hamas executed six hostages with point-blank shots after Israeli troops got too close to their hiding place.

The war also devastated Gaza, with huge swaths of the enclave destroyed by Israeli strikes. More than 67,000 Palestinians were killed, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry.

That figure does not differentiate between civilians and terrorists.

The release of the hostages marks a major turning point in the Gaza war — and a step toward ending it once-and-for-all, per Trump’s 20-point peace plan.

After Israel agreed to the cease-fire deal, it withdrew its troops from much of Gaza and stopped attacking Hamas.

What comes next is a complex deal, in which Trump and Israel’s Middle Eastern neighbors will work to force Hamas to disarm and give up power.

Along with the living captives, Hamas was ordered to hand over the bodies of all the dead hostages whose whereabouts it knows, with an international effort set to begin to locate the remains of those missing.

It remains unclear how many bodies Hamas and its extremist allies have lost in the war, which saw large swaths of Gaza reduced to rubble and the terror network’s tunnel system repeatedly blown up.

The conditions of two others, Bipin Joshi, 24, and Tamir Nimrodi, 20, were unknown to the public before the hostage exchange.

Like with the previous hostage exchanges, the Red Cross was scheduled to drop the hostages off with the Israeli military, which will proceed to transport the captives to medical facilities to be treated.

 

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