'ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East': Trump Has a Warning if Hostages in Gaza Are Not Released

Rebecca Downs / Townhall Tipsheet 

On Monday afternoon, President-elect Donald Trump released a statement over Truth Social making a clear demand that Hamas release the hostages still being held in Gaza, and do so before he is inaugurated on January 20, 2025, otherwise "there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East."

 

"Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East - But it’s all talk, and no action!" Trump's post began. "Please let this TRUTH serve to represent that if the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity," his post continued.

His post concluded by stressing an urgent need for the hostages to be released and also threatened further retribution. "Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!" Read more, see Trump's Truth Social and X post here.