After Hamas released three hostages looking like Holocaust survivors, President Donald Trump has a warning for the terror group: release all hostages by Saturday or “all hell is going to break loose.”
While signing several new executive orders in front of the media inside the Oval Office on February 10, Trump issued his own warning for Hamas — though he noted that the decision was ultimately up to the Israeli government.
Hamas has been releasing a few hostages at a time throughout the so-called ceasefire deal, while Israel has been keeping up their side of the bargain by mass releasing prisoners — despite the fact that many of them are convicted terrorists and murderers who will likely rejoin Hamas and try to kill more Israelis in the future.
The three hostages released over the weekend prompted outrage across the world, as they were clearly emaciated and had obviously been tortured — to the point where many, including Trump, compared them to Holocaust survivors.
This is what Hamas is doing to their hostages
And some of them are American
Trump is right – this is barbaric and unacceptable pic.twitter.com/RwE4aXFDXy
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) February 10, 2025
Trump responded to the footage of these hostages by asserting that, if he were in charge of the ceasefire deal, he would demand that Hamas release every single hostage by Saturday, February 15, at noon — or else Hamas would face severe consequences. He emphasized that this would be his recommendation for Israel.
“I looked at the hostages that came in and they were emaciated,” Trump told reporters. “It looked like something out of the 1930s. It’s an absolute disgrace. And I think they saw the way the world viewed it and they’re looking for a reason not to send more because they’re all — you take a look at that, it looked like it was a concentration camp, which essentially it was, it looked like they came out of the Holocaust, and what a sad thing.”
Trump went on to assert that these were likely “the best” looking hostages that Hamas has — despite looking like “they are really hurting, mentally and physically” — insinuating that they decided to release the ones who looked the healthiest, while the rest must be even more emaciated. This is only further evidenced by the fact that Hamas announced that they would not be releasing any more hostages, claiming that Israel had broken the ceasefire without evidence.
“As far as I’m concerned, if all of the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 o’clock, I think it’s an appropriate time, I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out,” Trump said. “I’d say they ought to be returned by 12 o’clock on Saturday. And if they’re not returned, all of them not in drips and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two, Saturday at 12 o’clock.”
“And after that, I would say all hell is going to break out,” he added. “And I don’t think they’re going to do it. I think a lot of them are dead. I think a lot of the hostages are dead. I think it’s a great — it’s a great human tragedy, what’s happened, how people can be that mean to do? And the one guy was laughing when, when a hostage, he thought his family was alive, found out the family was dead, and his captor, so to speak — his captor, started laughing because he thought it was so funny. You know, this is, this is a different group of people. No, I would say, Saturday at 12, we want them all back. I’m speaking for myself. Israel can override it, but from myself, Saturday at 12 o’clock. And if they’re not, if they’re not here, all hell is going to break out.”
🚨 PRESIDENT TRUMP: "If all of the hostages are not returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock, I would say cancel it and all bets are off… All of them. Not in drips and drabs." pic.twitter.com/MozJATMKRy
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 10, 2025
