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I'm James Menendez.

Two weeks after a deal was struck to end the fighting in Gaza

and exchange hostages and prisoners, all the

questions surrounding what happens next are still largely unanswered.

Who'll monitor the ceasefire? When will essential supplies in the quantities they needed resume?

Who'll run Gaza in the weeks and months to come? Where will all those who've lost their homes live?

And so on and so on. The U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Israel today,

although his visit and that of Vice President J.D. Vance seemed to be more about making

sure the Israeli government sticks with President Trump's plan.

Speaking outside a new coordination centre set up to oversee the truce,

he said that Washington remained optimistic about the prospects for peace.

The outcome needs to be a Gaza where people have jobs and a life and a better future

and people aren't thinking about how do I kill Israelis, how do I attack Israel?

Because if we can't reach that point,

then there's not going to be a peace. There's not going to be an enduring peace. You can't be a peace

with elements that want to destroy you and kill you and carry out another October 7th. Everyone recognizes that.

But there's a lot of work that we need to do to achieve that. We're not there today, 14 days, 13 days after this

deal was signed. But I can tell you, we've made more progress than 13 days than anyone thought

possible. We've come a long way, but this is the first mile and a very long journey. We've

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