Posting to his Truth Social account, Donald Trump has threatened the remaining population of Palestine with “HELL” if Hamas does not agree to his peace deal:

BREAKING: Trump says Hamas has by this Sunday at 6PM ET to agree to his deal or “all HELL” will break out.

He is basically saying the Palestinian people must give up their freedom or die.

Pure evil. pic.twitter.com/7Lj7zsIEh0

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) October 3, 2025

‘Unbearably miserable’

Trump began his post as follows:

Hamas has been a ruthless and violent threat, for many years, in the Middle East! They have killed (and made lives unbearably miserable), culminating with the October 7th MASSACRE, in Israel, babies, woman, children, old people, and many young men and women, boys and girls, getting ready to celebrate their future lives together.

As Progressive International reported, in 2023 Israel had already subjected Gaza to “a state of siege, at various levels of intensity, since 2005“. As they wrote:

As long ago as 2008, Israel put together a military committee to calibrate exactly how many calories would be needed to permit each Gazan to barely survive, thereby allowing it to calculate and regulate the absolute minimum amount of food that could be allowed enter the besieged enclave.

The following chart highlights the deaths / injuries recorded by the UN between 2008 and 2020:

As can be seen above, the number of Palestinians killed stood at 5,590, which is more than four times the amount who were killed on October 7th. Despite this, politicians and media figures were not suggesting Palestinians would be justified in conducting a genocide against the Israelis. This would be an unhinged argument to make, of course, and yet it’s an argument they have repeatedly made in reverse.

Prior to October 7th, Palestinians did protest peacefully for an end to the siege. Speaking on the peaceful Great March of Return protest, Amnesty wrote in 2018:

More than six months have passed since the “Great March of Return” protests started in the Gaza Strip on 30 March. Their calls for Israeli authorities to lift their 11-year illegal blockade on Gaza and to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their villages and towns have not been met.

According to the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, since the start of the protests, over 150 Palestinians have been killed in the demonstrations. At least 10,000 others have been injured, including 1,849 children, 424 women, 115 paramedics and 115 journalists. Of those injured, 5,814 were hit by live ammunition.

If people are shocked by the New York Times’ coverage of the Israeli assault on Gaza, they probably don’t remember the Great March of Return, where IDF forces gunned down peaceful unarmed protestors and medics.

This is what the Times published in during that massacre. pic.twitter.com/HwdRU89Il3

— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) May 14, 2021

266 Palestinians, including 46 children, were ki!!ed by the IOF, and over 36,100 Palestinians, including nearly 8,800 children, were injured during the Great March of Return.

Yet people will continue to insist, “Why don’t Palestinians just protest peacefully?” https://t.co/lZ4RQhYugI

— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) December 11, 2023

Politicians and journalists also avoid acknowledging that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu supported the rise and continuation of Hamas – all because it’s easier for him to justify repressing a Palestinian government which supports armed resistance.

Trump

Trump’s post continued:

As retribution for the October 7th attack on civilization, more than 25,000 Hamas “soldiers” have already been killed. Most of the rest are surrounded and MILITARILY TRAPPED, just waiting for me to give the word, “GO,” for their lives to be quickly extinguished. As for the rest, we know where and who you are, and you will be hunted down, and killed.

I am asking that all innocent Palestinians immediately leave this area of potentially great future death for safer parts of Gaza. Everyone will be well cared for by those that are waiting to help. Fortunately for Hamas, however, they will be given one last chance!

Great, powerful, and very rich Nations of the Middle East, and the surrounding areas beyond, together with the United States of America, have agreed, with Israel signing on, to PEACE, after 3000 years, in the Middle East. THIS DEAL ALSO SPARES THE LIVES OF ALL REMAINING HAMAS FIGHTERS! The details of the document are known to the WORLD, and it is a great one for ALL!

We will have PEACE in the Middle East one way or the other. The violence and bloodshed will stop. RELEASES THE HOSTAGES, ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING THE BODIES OF THOSE THAT ARE DEAD, NOW! An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time.

Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump has previously drawn criticism for his willingness to tolerate unlimited violence:

I really want to watch them both burn in hell

Trump on Israel-Palestine: “Israel want [the war] to keep going, and we should let them go and let them finish the job”. While also using “Palestinian” as an insult. pic.twitter.com/asCJ9Gj7QG

— Abier (@abierkhatib) June 28, 2024

As Skwawkbox reported for the Canary:

A leaked document has exposed details of the US-Israel plan to install war criminal and former UK prime minister Tony Blair as governor of an Israeli-occupied Gaza after the criminal expulsion of the Palestinian people.

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The proposal involves a ‘board’ of billionaires who would ensure that Donald Trump’s Palestinian-free Gaza would create “real financial returns” for the individual and corporate investors in turning Gaza into a Trumpian beach resort.

The plan for the so-called “Gaza International Transitional Authority” (GITA) was initially drafted by Blair’s think-tank, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and subsequently tweaked by Trump’s advisers and others. It envisages a ‘hierarchical structure led by an international board’ that “exercises supreme strategic and political authority” under a chair leading the occupation as “senior political executive”, alongside a group directing investment projects and “housing schemes”.

Israel has frequently violated ceasefires with little in the way of consequences from its Western backers. Trump is facing some degree of pressure at home, however, with several former supporters accusing him of ‘humiliating’ America through his perceived subservience to Israel:

Tucker Carlson blasted US leaders for letting Israel dictate American policy, saying Netanyahu brags about controlling Trump and the US, and called it “humiliating” that Americans are being forced into harmful decisions for another country.

Carlson said the “humiliation ritual”… pic.twitter.com/eoML06Erzw

— AF Post (@AFpost) September 24, 2025

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By Willem Moore

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