00:00Mr. Secretary, I want to go back to Raf.
00:02You said you haven't received a detailed military plan
00:04from the Israelis about the way ahead there.
00:07What about the humanitarian plan that you
00:09say you want them to care for these hundreds of thousands
00:12of people displaced, provide food, shelter, medical care?
00:16Have they given you any indication
00:18about how they plan on doing that?
00:21Early on, we received a conceptual brief
00:24on how they were going to put measures in place
00:28to take care of the population that moved out
00:31of that battle space.
00:33And the things that are required to support that plan,
00:37I've not seen those elements go into play.
00:41And so my view is that there's more work to be done.
00:44And my view is also that this takes time.
00:49And so again, those things that I think
00:54need to be in place to take care of people
00:56whenever they migrate from one place to another, again,
00:59I've not seen evidence that those things are in place yet.
01:01Well, can you give us a sense of the concept that they gave you?
01:04Any details on that to us?
01:07I'll leave that to the Israelis to brief their concept.
01:10But yeah, it's one thing to have a concept.
01:15It's another thing to actually put it into play.
01:18Let's go to NBC.
01:20Mr. Secretary, you said that it is
01:23possible to conduct operations and also account
01:25for civilians in the battle space.
01:26And I wonder, on Rafa, given your extensive military
01:29experience, what you're seeing happen in Rafa right now,
01:32do you think that Israel is doing that,
01:34conducting their operations and accounting for civilians
01:36in the battle space?
01:37And then, Mr. Chairman, on the idea of Ukraine
01:42conducting strikes inside Russia,
01:43I wonder if you can say, are you confident that none
01:47of the long-range attack arms that the US has provided
01:50have been used to strike inside Russian territory?
01:56So regarding what Israel is doing inside Rafa,
02:07what we've seen thus far is a limited action
02:11that's been focused on the Rafa border crossing.
02:14And again, it's reported that Minister Golan
02:18said that he looks to expand operations going forward.
02:22Now, I look forward to having that discussion with him
02:26to understand what his intent is and how he's going to do that.
02:32But again, what we want to see is civilians accounted for
02:38and moved out of that battle space before anything happens.
02:40We've been clear about that throughout.
02:45As you well know, I think before this fight kicked off
02:51in Gaza, there were some 275,000 or so people
02:56that lived in and around Rafa.
02:58That number grew to 1.25 million or so.
03:04And that's a big jump.
03:06And that's a lot of people in a very compressed battle
03:10space that's in a very difficult urban area.
03:13And as you know, urban combat is very, very intense,
03:16very difficult to begin with.
03:18So unless you account for those civilians
03:21and do things differently, then I
03:23think you stand to have a lot more casualties going forward.
03:28And that's something that we'd like to see change.
03:30Let's go to Scripps.
03:32I am confident the attack that we provided
03:34have not been used in Russia.
03:37They've been used in targets in Ukraine.
