US leaning on Qatar to push Hamas for response to truce proffer

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says he spoke this morning with Qatar’s prime minister and urged him to secure an answer from Hamas to the latest hostage deal offer that was put forward over the weekend.

Sullivan also praises Israel’s military withdrawal from Khan Younis “create[s] a greater opening for the movement of humanitarian goods around Gaza at a critical moment when there is a real humanitarian crisis there.”

“We welcome the opportunity to move more trucks in and around Gaza so that innocent civilians can get the food, water, medicine and other essentials that they need,” he says during a White House press conference.

But he says the amount of aid entering the Strip, which included 468 trucks and 303 air drops over the past day, while good, is still not good enough.