Netanyahu: Hamas must disarm, otherwise “hell will break loose.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he hoped for a peaceful next stage in the agreement between Israel and Hamas, but noted that President Trump’s terms were “very clear:” Hamas must give up its weapons and disarm, otherwise “all hell will break loose.”

“We agreed to give peace a chance,” Netanyahu said on Tuesday, a day after Mr. Trump made a brief visit to Tel Aviv to mark the anniversary. First stage for him 20-point peace plan Regarding Gaza, declaring that “the war is over.”

Now that the living hostages have been returned, Netanyahu said disarmament and disarmament must come next.

“First, Hamas must give up its weapons,” Netanyahu said in an exclusive interview in Tel Aviv with CBS Morning co-host Tony Dokoupil. “And secondly, you want to make sure that there are no weapons factories inside Gaza. There is no smuggling of weapons into Gaza. This is disarmament.”

Hamas refused to give up its weapons. Trump warned on Tuesday that if Hamas did not disarm, “we will disarm.”

“It will happen quickly and perhaps violently,” he said. “But they will disarm.”

Netanyahu said he heard Trump’s comments, and rephrased them as “all hell is breaking loose.”

“Well, I hope not,” Netanyahu said. “I hope we can do it peacefully. We are certainly willing to do that.”

The deal, brokered by the Trump administration, secured the release of all 20 surviving Israeli hostages in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held by Israel.

Hamas also returned the remains of four deceased Israeli hostages on Monday Four others were handed over Tuesday, leaving 20 yet to be returned. The Forum for Families of Hostages and Missing Persons, a group representing families of hostages, called for the peace plan to be suspended “until every deceased individual is returned.” Mr. Trump said on Monday that not all of the bodies had been found and recovered.

The exchange was a crucial step in the agreement aimed at ending the two-year war in Gaza and achieving lasting peace in a region marred by decades of conflict.

The plan also called on Israel to withdraw from parts of the Gaza Strip, and stated that “full aid will be sent immediately” to Gaza, where the Palestinians are facing problems. famine. The plan also includes, but does not fully resolve, more sensitive issues, including post-war governance in Gaza, a Palestinian state, and the disarmament of Hamas.

For those who doubt he wants peace, Netanyahu said to look to the Abraham Accords, under which Israel normalized relations with four Arab League countries.

“We have an opportunity to expand this peace,” he said, adding that this would be “the greatest gift we can give to the people of Israel, the peoples of the region, and the peoples of the world.”

Watch more of Dokoupil’s exclusive interview with Netanyahu on Wednesday on CBS Mornings.