Sec. Blinken: Rafah Incident Was Horrific, in the ‘Absence of the Plan for Day After, There Won’t Be a Day After’

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BLINKEN: “I think it's very important in this moment, after Israel has had real success in helping to destroy Hamas' capacity to repeat October 7th, which was a very appropriate and very righteous objective, it has to ask whether -- and especially in the absence of a plan for the day after in Gaza, further incremental gains against Hamas, but gains that may not be durable, in terms of the Hamas' defeat, in the absence of a plan, how that stacks up against some of the, again, unintended, but horrific consequences of military action in a place where the people you're going after are so closely embedded with civilians. And I think this underscores the imperative of having a plan for the day after, because in the absence of a plan for the day after there won't be a day after. And this is where we need to go.”