house press briefing room and the daily press briefing with the white house press secretary jet. jen stuckey is addressing some questions around the gaza israeli conflict. let's listen them. we clearly will be watching it, but we do have assurances from the relevant parties that they are committed. and yesterday, before this was the now you said you expected israel start winding down their operation, giving a cheap, significant military objective. so how much of the timing of this do you think it's because of the present diplomatic approach and how much of this is simply because the israelis has exhausted much of their target? well, i think what's again important to remember is to point back to how these conflicts have worked in the past. and we have seen these conflicts last 4 weeks and weeks. many, many more lives lost now. we certainly know there were lives lost in this 11 day conflict. everyone is a tragedy. but certainly because of the president, steve engagement, his long relationships, the fact that he said a clear objective from the beginning that we were going to put out the noise a