US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan appeared to dismiss the effectiveness of President-elect Donald Trump’s threats when he said all hell would break loose on Hamas if it did not release the hostages before his presidential inauguration on January 20.
“I was struck by the phrase ‘all hell will break loose’ or ‘all hell will break loose,’ because if you are a member of Hamas in Gaza, I think it is fair to say that you’ve seen hell fall on you since [15] month,” Sullivan said in an interview with Bloomberg.
He stressed that Israel has “totally destroyed the Hamas battalions,” noting that the IDF has eliminated Hamas’s top leaders in Gaza and that the terrorist group’s military network has been significantly weakened.
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“The firepower and military pressure exerted on Hamas has been quite spectacular over the [15] last months […] and with this impending period of transition from one president to another […] we have circumstances that could allow us to make a deal,” Sullivan said.
When asked if the January 20 deadline set by the American, Qatari and Egyptian mediators had made it possible to advance the negotiations, Joe Biden’s main adviser replied in the affirmative.
Sullivan explained that shortly after the November presidential election, US President Joe Biden instructed his National Security team to work with the new administration and ensure there was a “united front” regarding efforts to find an agreement allowing the release of the hostages.
“This is not a partisan issue. This is an American issue to get our hostages out, and all the hostages, to end the fighting and to get humanitarian aid into Gaza,” he said.
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