Jake Sullivan: We’re Talking to Israel to Ensure Their Safety and Palestinian People’s Safety Long-Term

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SULLIVAN: "Well, at the broadest level, the goal is to ensure the safety and security of the state of Israel and the Jewish people. At the next level down, it's to eliminate the Hamas terrorist infrastructure, the Hamas terrorist threat, so that Hamas cannot pose a threat to Israeli citizens, to the state of Israel going forward. You have raised the number of questions there that I think are really important. They're questions we are grappling with and talking to the Israelis about even now. What does the long term look like, even as you work on the immediate term? I'm not in a position to give you definitive answers to that, but, of course, we are talking to the Israelis about the full set of questions, looking out into the future to ensure that Israel is safe and secure and also that innocent Palestinians living in Gaza can have a life of dignity, security, and peace in the future as well."