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Trump’s Slow, Faltering ‘Peace’ Plan Enabling Hamas to Torture and Murder Palestinians
Khaled Abu Toameh
January 8, 2026

While the US and other countries are talking about the need to move to the second phase of President Donald J. Trump’s 20-point peace plan, the Iran-backed Hamas terror group is continuing to reassert its control over parts of the Gaza Strip that are no longer under Israeli control. Hamas, in addition to rearming and regrouping, has stepped up its crackdown on Palestinians suspected of “collaboration” with Israel. Hamas’s goal is to intimidate and deter the residents of the Gaza Strip and remind them that the terror group has no plans to end its rule or lay down its weapons. As far as Hamas is concerned, any Palestinian who believes in Israel’s right to exist and opposes terrorism is a traitor who should be punished by death. READ MORE