Antony Blinken: “It would reduce our efforts to engage and build the kinds of partnerships we need to push back against that influence.”

That statement is incorrect.

We have offered them nothing not to invade Rafah except a plan to deal more effectively with Rafah.

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.

The response we got was unfortunately not the yes that we were looking for. A yes that virtually the entire world has given.