Gaza Herald- U.S. President Donald Trump made a disturbing statement on Friday, claiming that Hamas “wants to die,” while justifying Israel’s continued military aggression in Gaza. His remarks came as the United States abruptly withdrew from ceasefire negotiations, amid rising global outrage over the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump claimed that the Palestinian resistance Movement Hamas was uninterested in reaching a deal and was deliberately holding on to hostages for leverage. “They didn’t really want to make a deal. I think they want to die—and it’s very, very bad,” he said. He then added, in what appeared to be a full endorsement of Israeli war crimes: “You’re going to have to finish the job.”
Such language reflects not just indifference, but clear support for a military campaign that has decimated entire neighborhoods, displaced over two million people, and plunged Gaza into famine. Trump and his administration have echoed Israeli talking points, choosing to vilify the resistance while ignoring the mass killing of civilians and the deliberate starvation of an entire population.
Special envoy Steve Witkoff attempted to justify the U.S. exit from the talks, claiming that Hamas wasn’t negotiating in “good faith.” Yet this rhetoric conveniently ignores the fact that while so-called negotiations were ongoing, Israeli bombs continued to fall on Gaza’s hospitals, schools, and refugee camps.
At the same time, world leaders began to push back. French President Emmanuel Macron announced France would recognize a Palestinian state a symbolic gesture met with scorn by Trump. “He’s a very good guy,” Trump said sarcastically. “But what he says doesn’t matter. That statement doesn’t carry any weight.” He brushed off questions about whether he had urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza, saying only that their recent call was “sort of disappointing.”
Meanwhile, credible UN reports confirm the true scale of the crisis. Over 96% of Gaza’s population is suffering from acute food insecurity, and nearly 100,000 women and children are on the brink of starvation. A quarter of the population now faces famine-like conditions conditions manufactured by the total blockade and relentless bombing campaign Israel continues to carry out with U.S. backing.
It has now become evident that the real objective behind their coordination with the Zionist entity was to create internal pressure on the resistance, stripping it of any bargaining power. Their strategy was never aimed at peace, but at weakening the resistance from within in order to pave the way for the continuation of the war on Gaza.
This approach reflects the only path embraced by those who have consistently sought to dismantle the resistance by coercing it into surrender and compelling it to release Palestinian prisoners, all under the guise of a deceptive peace. In reality, such a surrender would only lead to the total annihilation of the people of Gaza and the loss of everything the resistance has fought to protect.
Since the very beginning, this war has been led by the Israeli state with a singular goal: to annihilate the resistance, erase Gaza from the map, and destroy the Palestinian will to exist. The resistance is not the cause of this catastrophe it is its target. And if it were to surrender today, hand over its weapons, and abandon its people, it would only seal Gaza’s fate. The blame lies not with those who fight back, but with those who stand by and enable the machinery of occupation and genocide.
