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White House Slams Hamas at Press Briefing
(White House) U.S. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby was asked at a press briefing on Thursday about President Biden's statement that "innocents will die and that this is the price of the war" in Gaza. Q: Don't you think this is insensitive? There has been very harsh criticism about it. For example, the Council on American-Islamic Relations said it was deeply disturbed and called on the President to apologize. Would the President apologize? Kirby: No. Q: Does he regret saying something harsh like that? Kirby: What's harsh is the way Hamas is using people as human shields. What's harsh is taking a couple of hundred hostages and leaving families anxious, waiting, and worrying to figure out where their loved ones are. What's harsh is dropping in on a music festival and slaughtering a bunch of young people just trying to enjoy an afternoon. I can go on and on. That's what's harsh....We know that there are thousands waiting to leave Gaza and Hamas is preventing them from doing it. That is what is harsh."