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La guerra en Gaza: Donald Trump vuelve a amenazar a Hamas con «un infierno» si no liberan a los rehenes de inmediato
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, amenazó este miércoles a Hamas con hacerles pagar «un infierno» si no liberan de inmediato a todos los rehenes secuestrados en la Franja de Gaza.
«‘Shalom Hamas’ significa hola y adiós. Ustedes pueden elegir», declaró el mandatario en un mensaje en su plataforma Truth Social en el que agregó: «¡Liberen a los rehenes ahora o tendrán que pagar un infierno!».
Trump publicó este mensaje después de reunirse en el Despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca con ocho rehenes de Hamás que fueron liberados, a los que prometió que logrará la liberación del resto.
«Liberen a todos los rehenes ahora, no más tarde, y devuelvan inmediatamente todos los cadáveres de las personas que asesinaron, o se acabó para ustedes», amenazó el mandatario en su mensaje.
Trump recalcó que está enviando a Israel «todo lo que necesita para terminar el trabajo» en Gaza y apuntó que «ni un solo miembro de Hamás estará a salvo» si no cumplen con este ultimátum.
«¡Esta es la última oportunidad!», exclamó el mandatario, quien sugirió a los líderes del grupo islamista palestino que «tomen una decisión inteligente» o «están muertos».
La amenaza de Trump llega después de que la Casa Blanca confirmara este mismo miércoles que tiene «conversaciones y discusiones en curso» con el grupo islamista para poner fin definitivo a la guerra en Gaza, en la que actualmente hay una tregua vigente.
Las conversaciones son inéditas, ya que Estados Unidos nunca antes había dialogado directamente con Hamas, al que Washington considera una organización terrorista desde 1997.
En una rueda de prensa, la portavoz de la Casa Blanca, Karoline Leavitt, explicó que dichas conversaciones con Hamas están lideradas por el enviado presidencial para rehenes, Adam Boehler, y que han tenido lugar con el conocimiento de Israel, que fue consultado al respecto.
La portavoz defendió este enfoque de diálogo con Hamas como una posible vía para lograr el fin de la guerra en la Franja de Gaza, que ha causado la muerte de más de 48.000 palestinos y donde aún permanecen 59 rehenes israelíes, de los cuales más de una treintena se creen habrían fallecido.
El pasado 11 de febrero Trump ya había asegurado que si Hamas no reanudaba el canje de rehenes antes del sábado 15 se iba «a abrir el infierno» sobre la organización islamista en la Franja de Gaza.
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Greenland, Panama fiercely reject Trump’s ambitions in address to Congress
Leaders from both Greenland and Panama issued messages Wednesday fervently rejecting the comments made by President Donald Trump during his address to Congress in which he again reiterated his ambitions to grab hold of the strategically important areas.
Trump has made clear he intends to «acquire» both Greenland and the Panama Canal, and previously refused to rule out military intervention to achieve his expansionist goals.
In his joint address to Congress, the president said his administration had already taken steps to «take back» the Panama Canal and reiterated his push to acquire Greenland, which is currently a territory of Denmark.
TRUMP SAYS AMERICA WOULD WELCOME GREENLAND DURING JOINT ADDRESS TO CONGRESS
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025 in Washington, DC (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
TRUMP LOOKS EAST
Trump spoke directly to Greenland in his address Tuesday night and said, «We strongly support your right to determine your own future, and if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America.»
«We will keep you safe. We will make you rich. And together we will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before,» he added.
Trump then said his administration was «working with everybody involved to try to get it.»
«We need it really for international world security. And I think we’re going to get it,» he continued. «One way or the other, we’re going to get it.»
GREENLAND’S RESPONSE
Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute Egede on Wednesday made clear he is neither interested in American or Danish ownership.
«We do not want to be Americans, nor Danes, we are Kalaallit (Greenlanders). The Americans and their leader must understand that,» Egede said in a post on Facebook translated by Reuters.
«We are not for sale and cannot be taken. Our future is determined by us in Greenland,» he added.
Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede (left) and President-elect Donald Trump (right). (Getty Images | Fox News Digital)
TRUMP LOOKS SOUTH
Trump’s comments regarding the Panama Canal Tuesday night were just as direct when he said, «My administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.»
«We’ve already started doing it,» he added.
Trump has claimed China has taken over the important waterway as a Hong Kong-based company operates ports on either end of the canal — which the administration has claimed could cut off the U.S. from the canal if Beijing directed it to.
However, Panama has repeatedly rejected the claim that China runs the canal.
PANAMA AGREES TO END CANAL DEAL WITH CHINA AFTER RUBIO VISIT
The Marshall Islands cargo ship Cape Hellas (L) and the Portuguese cargo ship MSC Elma sail on Gatun Lake near the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon City, Panama, on Dec. 28, 2024. (ARNULFO FRANCO/AFP via Getty Images)
«Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a couple of other canals,» Trump said.
Trump’s comments were in reference to a $23 billion BlackRock Inc.- TiL Consortium deal made with Hutchison Port Holdings, the Hong Kong conglomerate, announced on Tuesday.
The consortium, made up of BlackRock Inc., Global Infrastructure Partners and Terminal Investment Limited, would acquire «90% interests in Panama Ports Company (the «PPC Transaction»), which owns and operates the ports of Balboa and Cristobal in Panama,» according to a Tuesday press release.
PANAMA’S RESPONSE
But Panama’s president took issue with Trump’s comments saying in part, «Once again, President Trump, is lying.»
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, waves after being welcomed by Panama’s Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha, left, upon his arrival at the presidential palace in Panama City, on Sunday, Feb. 2. Panama is Rubio’s first trip abroad as Secretary of State. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
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«The Panama Canal is not in the process of being restored, and this is certainly not the task that was even discussed in our conversations with [Secretary of State] Rubio or anyone else,» Panama President José Raúl Mulino said in a post on X. «I reject, on behalf of Panama and all Panamanians, this new affront to the truth and to our dignity as a nation.
«It has nothing to do with the ‘recovery of the Canal’ or with tarnishing our national sovereignty,» he added. «The Canal is Panamanian and will continue to be Panamanian!»
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