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## Video: National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby Says a Cease-Fire Right Now "Only Benefits Hamas"

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_Published 2023-10-25. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the call for a cease-fire right now "only benefits Hamas."_


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## Transcript

All I can tell you is we're going to continue to make sure Israel has the tools in the capabilities that they need to defend themselves and continue to try to get that humanitarian assistance and people out of Gaza appropriately and I think you've heard us say a ceasefire right now really only benefits from us. That's where we are right now and I I understand the question, but I'm just not going to get ahead of where things are. They said from the beginning. We want to see a measure of protection for civilians and and and it pauses in an operation is is a towel and a tactic that can do that for temporary pit papers of time.

That's not the same as saying a ceasefire again right now. We believe a ceasefire benefits him us the general This Is War. It is combat. It is bloody it is ugly and it's going to be messy and innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward. I wish I could tell you something different. I wish that that wasn't going to happen, but it Please going to happen and that doesn't make it right doesn't make it to dismissible. It doesn't mean that we are going to still Express concerns about that in and do everything we can to help these really do everything they can to minimize it. But but that's that's unfortunately that the nature of conflict and he's been talking again to prime minister Netanyahu and we've been speaking to these rallies again since the very early hours of this 2 weeks ago that respect for human life respect for civilian population in Gaza, making sure that they can continue to get access to Food Water medicine and electrical power remains critical.

It's important and that's why he works so hard on this last trip last week to do exactly that by getting these rallies in the Egyptians to agree for humanitarian assistance to get in primary obstacle. The ability for that age arrive at the pace of present would be satisfied. I know it would be very tempting. actors of play here and if it was easy my goodness, there'd be hundreds of trucks blowing in every day. It's a combat zone Peter. It's it's a war zone and that greatly complicates the ability to move safely and to the right of the recipients of customers that kind of mad at Aaron at 8. So it there's there's lots of players involved are Mazdas.

I was a player player player the UN as a player and is working. This is as hard as he can Unfortunately today. We haven't seen any trucks going. We'll see we'll see what the hours to come bring into Gaza which Hamas has said is required for any sort of deal to release hostages did the u.s. Support that position if we had said continue to say that fuel is an important commodity for life and sustainment in Gaza for the Palestinian people that are still there and we know that fuel is a precious commodity that's running out and you need it for generator generators and hospitals. You need it to run the Elevation pump so that you can drink freshwater and seawater.

All of that is important. And so we're going to continue to work with Partners in the region. We're going to continue to push for for fuel to get in at that look that said answer this again yesterday. We certainly understand is really concerned about the possibility for Hamas to abscond with fuel and use it for their own purposes and not allow it to be used in hospitals and desalination plants. We understand that that is a legitimate concern no question about it, which is why again and Vassar Satterfield was on the ground work in this so hard that there's a there's a balancer that has to be achieved.

Obviously. We haven't achieved it yet, but we still believe just in general that fuel needs to be able to get into the to the to the people got them.

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