Hostages will be released ‘when Hamas is confronted and destroyed,’ Trump says

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President Donald Trump appeared to back Israel’s expected renewed operations in Gaza against Hamas on Monday morning.

Trump has been one of the few international leaders to continue to back Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while several of Israel’s other allies have called on him to do more to end the war and have announced their intent to recognize a Palestinian state in the coming months.

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