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The White House is growing increasingly agitated with the Israeli government’s conduct since the signing of the US-brokered Gaza deal, N12 reported on Thursday, citing a senior American source.
‘Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is walking a very fine line with President Trump. If he continues like this, he will eventually f*** up the agreement, and if he f*** up the agreement, Donald Trump will f*** him,’ the official said.
The growing concern in Washington comes as Vice President JD Vance ended his visit to Israel on Thursday, only to be replaced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the US continues to send representatives to oversee the implementation of phase one of the Gaza deal.
Trump says Gaza war would have lasted years without his direct intercession
Trump stated that the Gaza deal prevented Netanyahu from continuing the war for several years in a Time Magazine interview.
Trump said he was surprised by how focused the people of Israel were on returning the hostages, and that he was convinced that Israel would have ‘sacrificed more hostages in order to keep going.’ But when he saw that the people wanted them home more than anything else, he said to Hamas, ‘No more of that. You’re giving us the f**king hostages, all of them.’
Regarding Hamas’ disarmament under the deal, the resistance group must disarm or be in ‘big trouble,’ Trump continued, otherwise the war may resume. ‘Right now, they’re killing gangs, but you know, at what point do the gangs morph into political opponents?’
The Palestinians don’t have a ‘visible’ leader right now, because ‘every one of those leaders has been shot and killed,’ Trump explained, going on to note that while he finds Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), ‘reasonable,’ he is probably not an option to rule the Strip.