The Times of Israel reports: “US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Hamas has told his top aides that it will disarm, and that the terror group could be dealt with ‘violently’ if it refuses to do so. He also pressed the Palestinian terror group to follow through with its release of all the dead hostages still being held in the Strip.

‘I spoke to Hamas, and I said, ‘You’re going to disarm, right?’ ‘Yes, sir. We’re going to disarm.’ — That’s what they told me. They will disarm or we will disarm them,’ Trump told reporters at the White House.

He later clarified that this message, rather than in a direct conversation between the president and Hamas officials, was passed along via his ‘people,’ apparently referring to US special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner…”