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Israel sets deadline: Large offensive will start after Trump’s Middle East visit unless Hamas releases hostages

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Israel will give Hamas a last chance to agree to a hostage deal until after the Middle East visit of U.S. President Donald Trump next week, an Israeli official told local media outlets on Monday.

The senior security official stressed that without an agreement according to the Witkoff proposal, the new offensive dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots” would “begin with great force and will not stop until all its objectives are achieved.”

The Israeli cabinet approved plans for a large-scale, new offensive in Gaza on Sunday evening. “That was the chief of staff’s recommendation — to move, as he said, toward the defeat of Hamas,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video message on Monday.

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