“It says more about the fact that you have a party, Hamas, [that] is holding innocent people that it took hostage six months ago,” [Jake] Sullivan responds. “It doesn’t get a lot of attention in the commentary.”

“There could be a ceasefire in place today that would extend for several weeks to be built upon longer if Hamas would be prepared to release some of those people, so let’s train the attention where it belongs, which is the world should say at this moment that ‘Hamas, it’s time. Let’s go. Let’s get that ceasefire.”