US President Donald Trump has threatened Hamas with eradication if it does not honor the Gaza peace deal. However, he said that he would give the militant group some time to abide by the truce.
Speaking to reporters to Monday (October 21) at the White House while hoisting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Trump said that he was hopeful that the Palestinian armed group was going to behave.
"We made a deal with Hamas that they're going to be very good, they're going to behave, they're going to be nice," said Trump as quoted by AFP.
“And if they're not, we're going to go and we're going to eradicate them, if we have to. They'll be eradicated, and they know that,” he added.
Hamas says committed to truce
However, Hamas’s main negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, told Egypt's Al-Qahera New