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ARTICLE VIEW:
Trump says some hostages may have ‘recently died’ in Gaza, as
Israel calls on Palestinians to evacuate enclave’s largest city
By Ibrahim Dahman, Kareem El Damanhoury, Lucas Lilieholm, Nadeen
Ebrahim, CNN
Updated:
8:36 AM EDT, Sat September 6, 2025
Source: CNN
US President Donald Trump said that some of the 20 hostages who are
presumed to be alive in Gaza may have “recently died,” as Israel
calls on Palestinians living in Gaza City to evacuate ahead of on the
enclave’s largest city.
“It’s 20 people but I think of the 20 there could be some that have
recently died is what I’m hearing. I hope that’s wrong,” Trump
told reporters at the Oval Office on Friday.
“We know that at least 30 people are dead, and we are negotiating to
get them out,” he added.
The Israeli government says 47 hostages abducted by Hamas and its
allies on October 7, 2023 are still in Gaza, including 27 who are
believed to be dead.
Trump did not reveal the source of the information regarding the
possible recent deaths.
Trump said the administration was to secure the release of the
remaining Israeli hostages and warned of a “tough situation” ahead.
“When you get down to the final 10 or 20, you’re not gonna get them
out unless you’re gonna do a lot and doing a lot means
capitulation,” he said.
The Israeli military has not yet responded to CNN’s request for
comment on Trump’s remarks.
Trump made similar comments in August saying “probably” fewer than
20 of the remaining hostages were still alive, prompting demands from
the families of remaining hostages for answers from Israel’s
government. Last April, ’s wife Sara was overheard on a microphone
saying that fewer hostages were alive than the government’s official
numbers suggested, sparking outrage among hostage families who demanded
the government reveal information about the number of those still
alive.
In a statement Saturday, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum did
not directly address Trump’s latest remarks on the hostages but
thanked him for “making every effort to fulfill his promise to bring
them home.”
Trump’s comments came on the same day of two hostages in which they
were shown above the ground and being driven around Gaza City. One of
them said that he and eight other hostages in Gaza City would die if
Israel proceeded with its plan to take over the city.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum have criticized Israel’s on
the city, saying it would increase the risk to hostages since the
Israeli military lacks precise information about their location.
Calls to evacuate
Meanwhile, the Israeli military has expanded its military operations in
recent weeks to take over and occupy Gaza City, which it claims would
defeat Hamas. The military says it now controls 40% of the enclave’s
largest city.
The Israeli military has called on Palestinians to move from Gaza City
to the south, in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis.
“We are declaring the Mawasi area a humanitarian zone, where work
will be carried out to provide better humanitarian service,” the
Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a statement on X
on Saturday morning.
“Seize the opportunity to move to the humanitarian zone early and
join the thousands who have already moved there,” he added.
Photos and videos on social media show leaflets dropped on Gaza City
and central Gaza carrying the same message.
A map in Adraee’s statement, purporting to show humanitarian
infrastructure set up in the south of the strip, shows no medical or
food distribution sites north of the Netzarim Corridor which bisects
the territory, leaving northern Gaza including all of Gaza City without
humanitarian support.
In response, Hamas’ local front issued multiple statements on
Telegram urging Palestinians in Gaza City not to flee southward,
describing it as “the path to death.”
“Every time people believed the ‘safe zones’ lie, it ended with
bloody massacres,” it said on Friday.
As of Wednesday, only 70,000 Palestinians had evacuated Gaza City out
of approximately one million people, a senior Israeli official said,
making up less than 10% of the total population.
Gaza City residents told CNN they would rather die in their homes than
to be displaced again.
“I am staying in my home and will not be displaced again, until my
last breath, even if it means death, because we are exhausted from
displacement,” Abu Yasser Al-Khour, a 51-year-old father of six, told
CNN.
The International Red Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has pushed back
against the mass evacuation of Gaza, calling it “unfeasible and
incomprehensible.”
“Such an evacuation would trigger a massive population movement that
no area in the Gaza Strip can absorb, given the widespread destruction
of civilian infrastructure and the extreme shortages of food, water,
shelter and medical care,” ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric said.
Where do ceasefire negotiations stand?
Last month, Hamas for a 60-day temporary ceasefire, during which 10 of
the living hostages would be returned in exchange for a mass release of
Palestinian prisoners. The offer is based on a similar proposal
presented by US special envoy Steve Witkoff in July, originally crafted
in coordination with Israel.
Israel is yet to provide a response to the offer, demanding, among
other things, that Hamas disarm completely. Hamas has not committed to
disarm, but says that Netanyahu wants to have “endless war” by not
responding to the deal.
In his remarks Friday, Trump warned that failure to secure a hostage
deal could lead to a “tough situation.”
“It’s going to be nasty – that’s my opinion, Israel’s choice,
but that’s my opinion,” Trump said. “They gotta let them out.”
Pressed on what demands Hamas still has, Trump told reporters the
organization is “asking for some things that are fine,” but added,
“You have to remember October 7.”
“You know, people forget October 7 – it’s not an easy thing to
forget, right?” he said. “But people forget, or they maybe
purposely forget October 7. So, you know, you have to put that into the
equation very strongly.”
And he said he’d spoken to families of the hostages still being held
in Gaza.
“They just want them back very badly, and everything that goes with
it – so it’s very sad,” he said.
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