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State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about aid in Gaza during a press briefing.
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00:00Two questions. First question about the aid delivery to Gaza. Since there were so many
00:08Palestinians killed or injured during getting this, is GHF looking at all into another dynamic,
00:14another way to deliver aid into Gaza? And the second question, President Trump said many times
00:20that he wants, he has another vision for the Middle East. He wants a permanent solution for
00:24Gaza. This is a deal for 60 days. Is this, could we look at this as a, he's laying the ground for
00:32a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, or is this just another attempt?
00:39What he does, he does because he expects it to work and it leads to what he wants to accomplish.
00:46This is, in any dynamic, and certainly in this framework, as we've even said about Russia and
00:51Ukraine, you can't discuss anything else until the shooting stops. You can't discuss what the peace
01:00will look like until you stop killing people. That's clearly, I think, a very basic dynamic.
01:07In this case, of course, I think that there's, when you've got to get a ceasefire, and then you can
01:12begin to look at what the next steps will be. And if there's a ceasefire, obviously it's elements that
01:18everyone has agreed to, which would also then lead to what President Trump's vision is at the end.
01:25It's, obviously that will be peace. It's not going to be the world's longest ceasefire. It's going to be
01:33peace that's achieved fundamentally by the changes on the ground, which we have already seen
01:38implemented over the last couple of weeks.
01:41And the AIDS?
01:41Well, again, we're dealing with, I'll just say this one more time. We're moving aid into a live war
01:53zone. It still exists because Hamas will not put down its weapons, won't stop killing people. It has an
02:00interest in the aid getting to the people. It has an interest in that to stop. Their strength has been
02:08to control the food, to steal the food, to use food as, to make money, to use food to keep the Gazan
02:17people at bay, reliant only on them. It is dangerous to have people who are getting food, who are getting
02:25their meals, who realize that something else can help them other than the monsters who've been running
02:32their lives. So they have an interest in creating a horrible environment. It is a war. I think
02:39considering we've got, again, 56 million meals to date, and that is a dynamic. I would suspect that,
02:49like with every endeavor, there's adjustments that are made based on the situation. I don't have those
02:55details, but considering the success so far, we should all be proud of the nature of what's happened
03:01as we continue, because it will not be enough to go to a ceasefire and then to a durable peace as
03:09guided by President Donald Trump.

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