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<div class="gmail-breadcrumbs"><div class="gmail-topics"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/">News</a>|<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/donald-trump/">Donald Trump</a></div></div><h1>Trump threatens \u2018to go in and kill\u2019 Hamas in Gaza over internal clashes</h1><p class="gmail-article__subhead"><em>Statement appears to signal about-face from US president, who previously backed Hamas\u2019s crackdown on Gaza gangs.</em></p><div class="gmail-responsive-image"><img src="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ap_68ed8c56a2279-1760398422.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80" alt="President Donald Trump holds a signed document during a summit to support ending the more than two-year Israel-Hamas war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (Suzanne Plunkett/Pool via AP)" width="395" height="263" style="margin-right: 25px;"></div>US
President Donald Trump holds a signed document on October 13 during a
summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to support ending the war in Gaza
[File: Suzanne Plunkett/Pool via AP]<div class="gmail-article-info gmail-m--t-20 gmail-m--desktop-b-30 gmail-m--b-mobile-20"><div class="gmail-byline gmail-byline--single-avatar"><div class="gmail-byline-content"><p class="gmail-contributors-list gmail-contributors-list--byline"><span class="gmail-contributors-list__by-prefix">By </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/author/ali_harb_200919153312036">Ali Harb</a></p></div></div><div class="gmail-article-dates"><div class="gmail-date-simple"><span class="gmail-screen-reader-text">Published On 16 Oct 2025</span></div></div><div class="gmail-rich-share"><div class="gmail-rich-share__wrapper"><div class="gmail-rich-share__button-wrapper"></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail-wysiwyg gmail-wysiwyg--all-content"><p>United
States President Donald Trump has threatened to break the ceasefire
between Israel and Hamas if the Palestinian group continues to target
gangs and alleged Israeli collaborators in Gaza.</p><p>\u201cIf Hamas
continues to kill people in Gaza, which was not the Deal, we will have
no choice but to go in and kill them,\u201d Trump wrote in a social media
post on Thursday. \u201cThank you for your attention to this matter!\u201d</p><p>The
statement appears to signal an about-face from Trump, who earlier this
week expressed support for Hamas\u2019s crackdown on gangs in the Palestinian
territory.</p><p>\u201cThey did take out a couple of gangs that were very
bad, very, very bad gangs,\u201d Trump told reporters on Tuesday. \u201cAnd they
did take them out, and they killed a number of gang members. And that
didn\u2019t bother me much, to be honest with you. That\u2019s OK.\u201d</p><p>There
have been deadly clashes reported between Hamas and armed clan members
in Gaza, who have been accused of looting humanitarian aid and working
for Israel.</p><p>After the fighting on Sunday, the Interior Ministry in
Gaza issued general amnesty for gang members who did not participate in
the bloodshed.</p><p>In June, Israeli officials admitted to arming Gaza
gangs, some of which have ties to ISIL (ISIS), in an effort to
destabilise Hamas.</p><p>On Sunday, gunmen from a Gaza gang linked to Israel killed prominent Palestinian journalist <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/12/palestinian-journalist-saleh-aljafarawi-shot-dead-in-gaza-city-clashes">Saleh Aljafarawi</a>, according to local forces.</p><div style="display:block;min-width:0px;max-width:770px"><div class="gmail-video-player-facade-container"><div class="gmail-aj-video-player gmail-in-article-bc-video-player gmail-aj-parsed-component"><span class="gmail-video-js gmail-vjs-paused gmail-vjs-controls-enabled gmail-vjs-workinghover gmail-vjs-v8 gmail-vjs-user-active gmail-vjs-layout-medium gmail-bc-player-6tKQRAx7lu_default gmail-bc-player-6tKQRAx7lu_default-index-0 gmail-vjs-mouse gmail-vjs-ad-controls gmail-vjs-ima3-html5 gmail-vjs-plugins-ready gmail-pause-controller gmail-vjs-player-info gmail-vjs-contextmenu-ui gmail-vjs-viewability gmail-vjs-errors gmail-vjs-quality-menu gmail-vjs-hide-controls" id="gmail-vjs_video_3" tabindex="-1" lang="en" role="region" aria-label="Video Player"><br><div class="gmail-vjs-poster" aria-disabled="false"><span class="gmail-vjs-poster" tabindex="-1"><img alt="" src="https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/665003303001/48fb5975-b0b8-4fdb-aa7a-403856446c1e/6ad3cc88-779d-462d-b6c9-4ba6b0d6957a/1920x1080/match/image.jpg" width="395" height="218" style="margin-right: 0px;"></span></div><div class="gmail-vjs-text-track-display"><div style="margin:1.5%"></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-aj-video-player gmail-in-article-bc-video-player gmail-aj-parsed-component"><span class="gmail-video-js gmail-vjs-paused gmail-vjs-controls-enabled gmail-vjs-workinghover gmail-vjs-v8 gmail-vjs-user-active gmail-vjs-layout-medium gmail-bc-player-6tKQRAx7lu_default gmail-bc-player-6tKQRAx7lu_default-index-0 gmail-vjs-mouse gmail-vjs-ad-controls gmail-vjs-ima3-html5 gmail-vjs-plugins-ready gmail-pause-controller gmail-vjs-player-info gmail-vjs-contextmenu-ui gmail-vjs-viewability gmail-vjs-errors gmail-vjs-quality-menu gmail-vjs-hide-controls" id="gmail-vjs_video_3" tabindex="-1" lang="en" role="region" aria-label="Video Player"></span></div><div class="gmail-post-icon-parent"><div class="gmail-post-icon__container gmail-post-icon--large"></div></div><div style="display:block;min-width:0px;max-width:770px"><div class="gmail-video-player-facade-container"><ul class="gmail-playlist-horizontal-container gmail-in-article-brightcove-playlist" id="gmail-playlist-container"><li tabindex="4"><div class="gmail-playlist-item-image-container"><div class="gmail-responsive-image"><img class="gmail-playlist-item-image" src="https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/665003303001/151426a7-9afd-4939-9e8b-71f7d14503b0/6084827a-5bfb-4fce-869a-b29c1f2fb59d/426x240/match/image.jpg?resize=730%2C410&quality=80" alt="Fresh bread returns to Gaza after months of aid blockade, but famine risk remains" width="395" height="223" style="margin-right: 25px;"></div></div><h3 class="gmail-playlist-item-title" title="Fresh bread returns to Gaza after months of aid blockade, but famine risk remains"> Fresh bread returns to Gaza after months of aid blockade, but famine risk remains</h3></li></ul></div>
</div><p> </p><p>Earlier this week, Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas condemned Hamas over accusations that the group executed
suspected Israel collaborators, calling the purported killings a
\u201cheinous crime\u201d.</p><p>\u201cWhat happened represents a crime, a flagrant
violation of human rights, and a serious assault on the principle of the
rule of law,\u201d Abbas\u2019s office said in a statement.</p><p>Under
Trump\u2019s ceasefire plan, Hamas would disarm and end any role in the
governance of Gaza. But it is not clear whether the group has agreed to
these conditions.</p><p>The truce has largely held since coming into
effect on Saturday. But Israel has repeatedly violated the agreement,
killing Palestinians daily under the justification that they approached
areas under the control of the Israeli military, which are not clearly
marked.</p><p>Israeli has also threatened to once again restrict
humanitarian aid to Gaza, accusing Hamas of failing to return all the
bodies of the captives it held. And it has refused to open the Rafah
crossing between the Palestinian enclave and Egypt, to facilitate
movement in and out of the territory.</p><p>Trump has <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/13/five-key-takeaways-from-donald-trumps-gaza-remarks-in-middle-east">hailed the ceasefire</a>
as the dawn of \u201ca new Middle East\u201d, but his latest threat casts doubt
on the sustainability of the truce, amid continuing Israeli occupation
and a lack of clarity over the future governance of Gaza.</p></div>