reply, is that the number is published by hamas are not only inflated they include the number of terrorists combatant death, every one civilian death, and every civilian deaths, by the way, is a tragedy is one civilian deaths, too many but compared to any other modern conflict, including the united states involvement in iraq, afghanistan, and syria, where the ratio was a for civilians to every combatant debt or nine civilians, 30 combatant. that that is a record that s not been matched by any other army in history including the united states military. so we re going to have an issue with the vitamin striation about those numbers but at base, i think the goals of the war remained unchanged, destroying hamas, assuring that over seventh can happen again i think we should point out that the white house has assessed that those numbers historically have been fairly accurate coming from the palestinian ministry of health. nevertheless about us ambassador michael oren, we have to l