Blinken speaks to press before departing Tel Aviv
Um yeah okay do I have everybody not convinent okay you guys don’t mind how far away are we spee spe I’m going to be down like this if you feel right Yeah just let me Know already burned you did Like The only that is he does have Know oh yeah oh I thought I thought they had I just need to get Great it’s don’t forget us down here some good like they they were like lounging with tropical drinks for several hours what organization is that test one two one two stand it doesn’t work out with that good evening everyone um I came back to Israel as a friend and to have C candid
Convers ation as friends do um we uh focused on the hostage negotiations as uh as I did as well in my conversations with uh Egyptian colleagues and the gari fign ministry yesterday uh I also had a chance to meet with the hostage families again uh and it’s hard to
Describe what they’re going through every single day um we uh We’ve made progress in the last couple of weeks on the hostage negotiations closing gaps but almost by definition when you get down to uh the last items they they tend to be the hardest so
There’s still a lot of work to be done hard work to be done but we’re determined to try to get it done we also talked about the imperative of surging and sustaining humanitarian assistance for the people in Gaza 100% of the population of Gaza is acutely food insecure 100%
Is in need of humanitarian assistance there have been some positive steps taken in recent days to improve the situation but it’s not enough and we talked about what needs to happen uh to get much more assistance to many more people more effectively uh we also talked about uh
Rafa we share Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas which is responsible for the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust and we share the goal of ensuring Israel’s long-term security uh as we’ve said though a major military ground operation in Rafa is not the way to do it uh it risks killing
More civilians it risks uh wreaking greater Havoc with the provision of humanitarian assistance it risks further isolating Israel around the world and jeopardizing its long-term security and standing so we’re looking forward to having Israeli officials in Washington next week to talk about a different way of achieving these objectives objectives
That we share of defeating Hamas and ensuring Israel’s long-term security uh it really requires an integrated humanitarian uh military and political plan as I said we’ll be talking about that next week going through the details of what we see as the best way forward uh we also had an opportunity to talk
About the longer term trajectory uh what need to happen once the conflict in Gaza is over um conversations that I had with our Arab Partners over the last couple of days and that we had here in Israel as well um we’re determined that Israel succeed in making sure it can defend
Itself uh that October 7th never happens again that it emerged from this strong secure integrated in the region uh with a future of security and peace not only for Israelis but for Palestinians and for our other friends in the region and we believe there’s a path forward to do
That we’ll be continuing to work to flesh out that path and to try to walk down it in the days and weeks ahead um Mr secretary thank you uh can you give us an update on the ceasefire talks in Doha what is the latest that you’ve heard from the negotiators and
Also today Israel has announced um a land seizure of 800 hectars in the occupied West Bank just when you’re doing your visit here what are your thoughts so on the on the negotiations I can’t give you any any more details other than to say that we’re intensely
Engaged in them uh working with the qataris working with the Egyptians working with Israel and uh we have teams in in in Doha and as I said uh we’ve gotten it down to uh a few remaining gaps but the closer you get to the goal
Line the harder that last yard is so uh there there are some hard issues to work through but we’re determined to do everything we can to get there and to get people home uh and um the negotiators will be working intensely to see if we can get that done uh I hadn’t
Seen the news you referred to but look you know our uh our views uh on settlement expansion uh you know our views on um everything from demolitions to evictions uh to other steps un Al steps uh that are taken that um make the already challenging Prospect of two
States even more distant so I haven’t seen the specifics of this but anyone taking steps that makes things more difficult more challenging at this time is something that uh we uh we have a problem tiny clarification when you say we have teams you mean us has teams on
The ground in Doha today and can you just confirm the negotiations have begun like they’ve been continuing this I can’t it’s it should be going going forward if not immediately now certainly in the hours uh ahead Michael uh thank you uh can you tell us in Practical terms what the US
Was trying to achieve with the resolution that was put forward at the United Nations today and then on your conversations today um you described in Broad stroke some themes that are familiar I wonder whether you delivered or heard any messages today that are new and different from your past
Conversations here so on the uh on the resolution which got very strong support but then was cynically vetoed by uh Russia and China um I think we were trying to show the International Community sense of urgency about getting a ceasefire tied to the release of hostages something that everyone uh
Including the countries that vetoed the resolution should have been able to get behind um the resolution of course also condemned Hamas it’s unimaginable why uh countries wouldn’t uh be able to do that uh but I think the fact that we got uh such a strong vote despite the veto uh
By two of the permanent members of Security Council again is is evidence and demonstration of the um commitment the conviction of countries around the world notably on the security Council uh to see about getting the ceasefire uh getting the release of hostages now that’s what the resolution said that’s
What it called for and I think there it it showed that a strong commitment to that from many many countries um with regard to the the conversations we had look this is uh this is an ongoing process as I said we really were focused on three things the hostage negotiations
Humanitarian assistance uh and rafen uh and it was important that um again we we we focus on all three things we I can’t I’m not going to get into the details of what we discussed uh but I think uh from from my perspective at least these were important candid conversations to have
At a critical time on all three uh of those issues is that it will be isolated if it doesn’t change its path again we what I what I shared and I think what um they’ve heard from President Biden as well uh directly is we have the we have
The same goals the defeat of Hamas Israel’s long-term security but a major ground operation of Raa is not in our judgment the way to achieve it and uh you know we’ve been very clear about that but most important we have a a senior team coming to Washington next
Week we’ll all be taking part in those discussions we’ll be able to lay out for them in detail I started to do that today but it’s important that the teams with all the expertise lay out in detail how those goals can best be accomplished with an integrated humanitarian military
And political plan um we’ll put all that on the table uh of course we’ll hear from them too uh and uh we’ll take it to next week thanks I
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press availability before boarding his airplane to depart Tel Aviv.
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