Good evening. I'm John Yang. The Israeli military says it will limit fighting in a small area of southern Gaza in order to allow more aid to reach Gazans desperately in need of food.

Daytime military operations will pause along a seven mile stretch of road

between the Karam Shalone crossing with Israel

and a hospital near Han Yunus.

The pace of aid shipments destined for Gaza

slowed when Israel closed the Rafa crossing with Egypt. Far right ultra-nationalist

and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government quickly condemned the move.

All of this unfolded as world leaders gathered in Switzerland

for a Ukraine peace summit where White House National Security

Advisor Jake Sullivan played a key role. He sat down one-on-one with foreign affairs and defense

corresponded Nick Schifran.

I want to get to Ukraine in the Peace Summit, but let me just ask you first to respond

to an Israeli Defense Forces announcement

this morning of what they're calling quote a tactical humanitarian pause from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day leading

from Karam Shalom, the crossing between Israel into Gaza, going toward

Rafa.

How significant is that announcement?

It's significant.

This is a good and important step because we've made a huge amount of progress in getting aid into Gaza, including the work

that President Biden did to get Karam Shalom back open a few weeks ago after the Rafa

operation began.

But the issue now has been getting aid around Gaza

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