Israel’s defense minister warned Friday the “gates of hell” will open up on Hamas soon if the terror group doesn’t agree to Israel’s terms for a cease-fire.
The ominous threat to destroy Gaza City came a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would authorize Israeli troops to mount a major operation to seize the Palestinian enclave’s largest city.
“Soon, the gates of hell will open upon the heads of Hamas’s murderers and rapists in Gaza – until they agree to Israel’s conditions for ending the war, primarily the release of all hostages and their disarmament,” Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote in a post on X. 4
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“If they do not agree – Gaza, the capital of Hamas, will become Rafah and Beit Hanoun. Exactly as I promised – so it shall be,” he added, referring to two