[News] Trump again threatens to 'bring hell to the Middle East' if hostages not released by inauguration

[Maheso]

CNN)-- US President-elect Donald Trump warned Tuesday that if hostages still being held in Gaza are not released by his inauguration on January 20, "all hell will break loose in the Middle East."".

 

“This is not going to be good for Hamas and it’s not going to be good, frankly, for anybody,” Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida . “All hell will break loose, and I don’t need to say more, but that’s what it is,” he added, referring to Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Steven Witkoff, Trump's pick for special Middle East envoy, said negotiators were "making a lot of progress" on a deal to release hostages held in Gaza..

remarks with the president-elect, Witkoff said he "really hopes that by the inauguration we will have some good things to announce on behalf of the president.""He added that he will return to the Qatari capital, Doha, where negotiations are taking place, on Wednesday