David Muir (00:00):
President-elect Trump with a blunt warning for Hamas. Matt Gutman with that from Israel.
Matt Gutman (00:05):
Tonight, President-elect Trump with a blunt new warning to Hamas, demanding they free the hostages before he takes office in January or there will be, quote, "all hell to pay in the Middle East", Trump calling the kidnappings "atrocities against humanity". And it comes hours after the IDF notified Omer Neutra's family that the Long Island, New York native had been killed-
Hamas Fighters (00:25):
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Matt Gutman (00:25):
… in this attack on the tank he commanded, one of the first images streamed by Hamas on October 7th. The high school basketball captain's body dragged into Gaza 14 months ago. Only three of the seven kidnapped Americans still held by Hamas remain alive.
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And David, that tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah tested today, but still officially holding. And that leaves the other Iranian group that Israel is fighting, Hamas, isolated, with the incoming Trump administration exerting ever more pressure on it to agree to a ceasefire and a hostage release. David.
David Muir (01:01):
The world watching. Matt Gutman tonight, thank you.