Good day to you and welcome to Mitha Press now on Peter Alexander here in Washington, where

the House of Representatives have set to vote any minute now on an emergency A bill for

Israel.

Package at the White House is criticizing as both insufficient and partisan.

We are going to speak with the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee about

that coming up.

But we do want to begin at this moment with the latest on the ground in the Israel

Hamas War, with Israeli forces pushing further into Gaza.

An IDF Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson now says that Israeli forces have completely

surrounded Gaza City and that a ceasefire is not on the table.

All of this comes as the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken left Washington this afternoon

in route to Israel and Jordan restating the US's support for Israel, but also urging

restraint as the casualties increase in Gaza.

No country, no country, not the United States, not anyone else that I can think of, what

tolerate the slaughter of its civilians.

So we stand behind that and we stand behind the proposition.

As democracies, the United States, Israel, other democracies have a responsibility to

do everything possible to protect civilians who may be caught in harm's way.

And this, again, is a crossfire quite literally of Hamas's making.

We will be talking about concrete steps that can and should be taken to minimize harm

to men, women, and children in Gaza.

And this is something that the United States is committed to.

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