US President Donald Trump threatened to "eradicate" Hamas if it breached its ceasefire deal with Israel, as Vice President JD Vance travelled to the region Tuesday to bolster the fragile Gaza truce.

The Trump administration has redoubled its efforts to cement the fragile Gaza peace agreement it helped to broker, after Israel accused Hamas of stalling the hand-over of hostages' bodies and deadly violence flared up in the territory over the weekend.

"We made a deal with Hamas that they're going to be very good, they're going to behave, they're going to be nice," Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday.

"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."

Both sides have said they are committed to the US

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