State Department Spokesman Asked: Will The U.S. Be 'Involved' In Israel's Gaza Plans Aside From GHF Support?

State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Pigott was asked about Israel's plans to occupy Gaza and any US involvement beyond the GHF.

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00:00Yeah, and if I can ask you on the other front, will the United States will be involved

00:07on the Gaza and Israeli situation beside the Humanitarian Foundation?

00:14Are there in place any other plan to try to bring this war to an end beside diplomacy?

00:20Well, so I'm not going to preview what decision the president may make.

00:23I already described how he was briefed following the trip, Special Employee Wyckoff and Ambassador Huckabee.

00:28There's been several different options that have been discussed.

00:31The main driver here is creative solutions.

00:32We want to see creative solutions, and we want to see a mechanism in place that delivers aid to the people of Gaza

00:38without it being looted by Hamas, without seeing aid diversion.

00:41That is the primary goal that we're having here.

00:43That's what we want to see.

00:44And we've been calling for creative solutions in order to get to that end.

00:47We've supported the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation because that mechanism,

00:50it is a mechanism in which that has been allowed to happen.

00:52110 million meals that have been delivered to the people of Gaza

00:56without it being diverted or looted, stolen by Hamas.

01:00So we're continuing to call for creative solutions.

01:02We want to see more people involved.

01:04We want to see partnerships, but based under a mechanism

01:06that allows aid to reach the people that need it.