Our main goal now is to return all the hostages home. If Hamas continues its refusal, it will pay increasingly heavy prices, in land that will be taken, operatives who will be eliminated, and infrastructure, until it is completely defeated.

We condemn in the strongest terms the barbaric Zionist aggression that targeted residential neighborhoods in the village of Koya in the Daraa countryside in southern Syria, resulting in the martyrdom of at least seven innocent civilians and the injury of others.

This fascist aggression is a dangerous escalation of Zionist violations against the Syrian Arab Republic and its brotherly people. It is a new war crime added to the fascist occupation government's bloody record, revealing its premeditated criminal intentions toward Syria and the brotherly Syrian people.

Bashar al-Assad had imposed on all Syrian mosques to pray for Gaza, its people, and its resistance. Moreover Palestine needs a new way of thinking.

If this was the case of a military officer or an intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior, they would be fired.

That was a mistake. And a serious one.

Thanks to President Trump and his strong leadership and everybody on that group chat. The leaders on that group chat are extraordinary people. I know them all personally, and they're patriots.

They're doing a great job for the country, and that was a successful mission.