'A Horrible Result Of More Horrible Decisions By Hamas': Bruce Reacts To Israeli Strikes On Gaza

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State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce was asked about Israel's recent strikes on Gaza.

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00:00Do you believe that diplomacy is still the best option to deal with Iran, considering

00:07some reports that maybe the President has given them two months only?

00:10Other options are still on the table.

00:12And on Gaza, while Israel is going after Hamas, there is reported of 400 people being killed,

00:18the majority are civilians, including 185 children.

00:22What is the United States doing to tell Israel to spare the life of civilians or to avoid

00:26them at least?

00:28Well, first of all, on the question of Iran, it's been clear – Secretary Rubio has made

00:32it clear that, of course, as the world's top diplomat, that diplomacy matters.

00:37And we continue – diplomacy includes, of course – there's a whole host of things

00:40in the toolbox for diplomacy, and the world understands this as well.

00:45So of course, yes, diplomacy is the best way to handle the situation.

00:49And regarding – was it about Gaza?

00:53The civilian casualties in Gaza, including 108 children, are being curbed.

00:57Yeah, it's horrible.

00:59This entire – it's the 21st century.

01:03And the savagery unleashed by terrorist groups, death squads of Iran, entities that have an

01:10investment in the suffering never-ending, the use of people – the Gazans in particular

01:16– as cannon fodder for a dynamic that the world has decried for decades.

01:24And finally, we are here and we've had enough of a conversation within the framework

01:30of this needing to end, and at the start, President Trump and Secretary Rubio demanded

01:36a new way of looking at how we end this – this framework of death and destruction, this cycle.

01:44And we are still in that process, and their demand that we can't continue on is made

01:50clear by the fact that Hamas had an offer, a bridge, to continue on to the second phase,

01:57which they rejected.

01:58It was not a dynamic that was clearly going to end well in their rejecting it, but they

02:04did so anyway.

02:06And it's a horrible result of more decisions by Hamas that continue the suffering.

02:11But that has been the history.

02:13And so it is – we decry – we not only decry the loss of life and the impact on children

02:20around the world, but enough to where President Trump has a term, one term, and his focus

02:26has clearly been peace on this planet in every single fashion.

02:33And it will essentially be able to work because he's known of getting – he's known to

02:37get results, he's known to be serious, and we're seeing it move forward.

02:41So it's a shame that Hamas has allowed this to occur, but look nowhere else other than

02:46the people who have facilitated this suffering from the beginning.

02:51The Trump administration, Secretary Rubio, the Department of State of this country are

02:55determined and are the ones working to make sure that this stops, and certainly the region

03:01understands that this is a real opportunity finally to change what's been happening

03:05in the past.

03:06Yes, sir.

03:07Can I follow up, Demi?

03:08Can I –

03:09Yeah, staying in this region, please.

03:10Staying in this region, please.

'A Horrible Result Of More Horrible Decisions By Hamas': Bruce Reacts To Israeli Strikes On Gaza

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