President Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. would destroy Hamas if the terrorist group didn’t continue to honor the ceasefire with Israel, with a fragile truce resuming after a weekend of heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip.

“They’re going to be nice, and if they’re not, we’re going to go and we’re going to eradicate them — if we have to, they’ll be eradicated, and they know that,” Trump said at a White House meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Asked if that meant American troops on the ground in Gaza, Trump said it didn’t and that he would just ask Israel to go back in “and take care of it.” However, he added that “right now, we haven’t said that. We’re going to give it a little chance, and hopefully there will be a little less violence.”

His comments came aft

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