And it is critical from a Department of Defense perspective that military operations distinguish between targeting Hamas and protecting innocent Palestinian civilians. Thank you. I want to turn to something else just because of the shortage of time. I'm very, very concerned about the humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians in Gaza. And we know that the only place where this is available is through the RafA crossing, which seems to have alternating access and the availability of passing through as of a couple of hours ago, according to an article that I just saw during this hearing, the crossing has been shut down due to some sort of security incident. Can you speak about ongoing efforts to increase the amount of aid and how to get it to the innocent civilians? Ambassador Satterfield and his team backstop by here in Washington. (03:59–04:42)
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