Antony Blinken: “We do not have an exact number, but it is in the thousands.”

In an era of renewed great power competition we must present the strongest possible offer.

In the Middle East, we're standing with Israel in its efforts to ensure what happened on October 7th never happens again.

I can't go into the details of our conversations today except to say that our Egyptian counterparts were in communication with Hamas as early, as recently as a few hours ago.

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