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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: U.S. Scrambles to Contain Fallout from Israel’s Strikes on Iranians and Aid Workers [Watch (HLS stream): U.S. Scrambles to Contain Fallout from Israel’s Strikes on Iranians and Aid Workers](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/VY9A7eDf.m3u8) (4:07)  _Published 2024-04-03. 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What he does is heroic not just in Gaza around the world providing food providing essential humanitarian assistance, and we don't use if you heard from the president last night in his statement it is he's outraged and he's heartbroken. We are all heartbroken here by those seven lives lost and so we are going to continue to mourn with some with some with the with Chef Jose Andres, and obviously the family's statement that he put out was pretty clear. I made it showed his outrage is hold how he was heartbroken. That's the first couple of words in the statement. He's outraged. He's heartbroken and we also laid out what we want to see and the conversations that we have been having but it also lifts up the importance of having that hostage deal getting that done getting to a cease-fire getting a humanitarian Aid making sure that those hostages come home to their love lives. So there's a lot of work to be done. We're going to continue to do that work, but I think that statement made it loud and clear made it loud and clear where the presents down by the hostage deal with some critical. That's why the president has been working 24/7 along with his with his team to get that hostage deal done. And if we get a hostage deal, it means that we can get more humanitarian Aid into Israel into Gaza part of me and also means that we get to a a cease-fire get into a ceasefire so that we can get that 8 in so that we can get also hostages home. So that is what we're going to continue also to work on. I don't have a progress report. If you saw on the president's statement that his team continues to have this conversation in Cairo right now that is important and he know we we wish I could I wish I could stand here today and say there's a deal but those conversations continue where we have made this a priority. This president has made this a priority get that house HD has supporting to get those hostages home to their family is important to get that humanitarian Aid and with a leading to a cease-fire from the readout is that the expectation is to have a meeting in person. I think it was important that there was a virtual meeting that occurred obviously on Monday to talk about other operations. We've been very clear when we stand on this very clear. We believe that has to be alternative ways to deal with Hamas in Gaza as weird or specifically it in rafah a military operation and we believe is not all the way to move forward. There is a active conversations happening with the Israeli government and obviously our government and I think that's important not going to go into details from here as you as you heard from us as you heard from Mike or there's going to be hopefully next week in person meeting and we're looking forward to continuing those really critical important conversations. This meeting again was decided after we're done Outreach for some time. Now, we wanted to make sure that this was a private meeting and that participants had an opportunity to be able to be to be honest and to be able to share their thoughts and feelings about how how where they are how they feel about the situation happening obviously in the Middle East. I don't have a a process until I get out how the list came about and so I don't have anything to it to lay out in that room, but as you know, and as I stated a couple of times we've done Outreach for this past several weeks every month to the Muslim to the our community. Housing and Community and I'd heard from them directly and Facebook we listen and that we hope that they feel like they had an opportunity to express themselves and had an opportunity in front of the president and the vice president not to talk about incredibly painful time. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"U.S. Scrambles to Contain Fallout from Israel’s Strikes on Iranians and Aid Workers","description":"U.S. officials on Tuesday scrambled to distance themselves from a series of Israeli military actions in Syria and Gaza that threaten to escalate hostilities in the region and further draw America into the conflict.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/VY9A7eDf/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-04-03T20:43:40.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/VY9A7eDf.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/VY9A7eDf/","duration":"PT4M7S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/VY9A7eDf/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```