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Israeli cabinet backs Trump’s demand for Hamas to release all hostages by Saturday deadline
Israel’s security cabinet fully supports President Donald Trump’s demand that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas release all of its hostages by noon on Saturday or that «all hell is going to break out,» an Israeli official told Fox News.
The declaration comes after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet Tuesday after Hamas announced it would delay the next release of Israeli hostages.
«The decision I passed in the Cabinet unanimously is this: If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon – the ceasefire will end, and the IDF will resume intense combat until Hamas is decisively defeated,» Netanyahu said in a statement after the meeting.
«In light of Hamas’ announcement of its decision to violate the agreement and not release our hostages, I instructed the IDF last night to amass forces inside and around the Gaza Strip. This operation is currently underway and will be completed as soon as possible,» Netanyahu added.
TRUMP SAYS CEASEFIRE SHOULD BE CANCELED IF HOSTAGES AREN’T RELEASED BY SATURDAY
Israeli captives, from left, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, who have been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, are escorted by Hamas fighters on a stage before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip on Feb. 8, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
«We also welcomed the President’s revolutionary vision for the future of Gaza,» Netanyahu said.
Trump said on Monday that if Hamas does not return all hostages by noon on Saturday, he will call for the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to be canceled and «let all hell break out.»
«If all the Gaza hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 p.m., I would say cancel the ceasefire,» Trump said in the Oval Office. «Let all hell break out. Israel can override it.»
Trump stressed that Hamas needs to release «all of them, not in drips and drabs.»
«Saturday at 12 p.m., and after that, I would say all hell is going to break out,» Trump said.
Trump reiterated his demand on Tuesday and told reporters that he believes Hamas will listen to him.
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Israeli soldiers gather by the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on Feb. 11, 2025. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
A Hamas spokesperson said Monday the terrorist group will delay the next planned release of hostages in the Gaza Strip, accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement.
«Over the past three weeks, the resistance leadership has monitored the enemy’s violations and failure to fulfill its obligations under the agreement; including the delay in allowing the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting them with direct shelling and gunfire in various areas across Gaza, and denying relief supplies of all kinds to enter as agreed, while the resistance has implemented all its obligations,» said Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for Hamas’ military wing.
Israel and Hamas are in the midst of a six-week ceasefire, during which Hamas has committed to releasing 33 hostages captured in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Displaced Palestinians wait at a security checkpoint in the Netzarim corridor while traveling to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip on Feb. 11, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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The sides have carried out five swaps since the ceasefire went into effect last month, freeing 21 hostages and more than 730 Palestinian prisoners. The next exchange, scheduled for next Saturday, calls for three more Israeli hostages to be freed in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Fox News’ Yael Rotem-Kuriel, Brooke Singman, Danielle Wallace, Yonat Friling and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Senior Islamic State leader killed in Iraq, Trump says his ‘miserable life was terminated’
The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq’s prime minister announced on Friday.
Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or «Abu Khadija,» was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement.
The prime minister described al-Rifai as «one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.»
U.S. President Donald Trump reacted to the news on his social media platform Truth Social, saying al-Rifai’s «miserable life was terminated.»
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani described al-Rifai as «one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.» (AP)
«Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed,» Trump wrote Friday night. «He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government.»
«PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!» the president added.
U.S. Central Command said in a statement that its forces, in cooperation with Iraqi Intelligence and security forces, conducted an airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the «Global ISIS #2 leader, Chief of Global Operations and the Delegated Committee Emir – Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias ‘Abu Khadijah,’ and one other ISIS operative.»
U.S. President Donald Trump reacted by saying al-Rifai’s «miserable life was terminated.» (Getty Images)
«As the Emir of ISIS’ most senior decision-making body, Abu Khadijah maintained responsibility for operations, logistics, and planning conducted by ISIS globally, and directs a significant portion of finance for the group’s global organization,» CENTCOM said.
Islamic State/Iraq/Syria: A masked Islamic State soldier poses holding the ISIL banner somewhere in the deserts of Iraq or Syria. ISIL publicity image, 2015. (Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
After the strike, U.S. and Iraqi forces moved to the location of the strike and found both dead ISIS targets who were each wearing unexploded «suicide vests» and who had multiple weapons, CENTCOM said.
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Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaybani, left, speaks during a news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein following their meeting, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March14, 2025. (AP)
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U.S. and Iraqi forces were able to identify al-Rifai using DNA collected in a previous raid where he narrowly escaped.
«Abu Khadijah was one of the most important ISIS members in the entire global ISIS organization. We will continue to kill terrorists and dismantle their organizations that threaten our homeland and U.S., allied and partner personnel in the region and beyond,» Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commander at CENTCOM, said in a statement.
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