Our National Security advisor Jake Sullivan who has an update on the middle east region. Jake sullivan thank you. Thank youy. I have a few opening comments and that i can take your question. President biden spoke with the Prime Minister netanyahu, the two leaders discussed the latest development in israel and gaza and they spoke about the state of israels military operations. The president emphasized his commitment to ensuring the longterm security of israel and he affirmed that he israel has after the perpetrators of the worst massacre of the jewish people since the holocaust. Israel has made significant progress against hamas and broken a significant number of hamas battalions, killed thousands of hamas fighters including senior commanders, hamas number three was put in an operation last week. The top leaders are in hiding deep in the hamas tunnel network. Hem to and we hoping to ensure that. More innocent civilians have died in this conflict in this military operation than in all th
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