u. n. had hosted with hillary clinton and cheryl sandberg, senator gillibrand and others, in which there wasublic testimony, witness testimony he, the head of the police in israel talking about witness testimony. and so, the president felt compelled to say something about what hamas did, the crimes that they committed on israeli women and girls, on october 7th. >> so these remarks are also coming just after democratic congresswoman pramila jayapal, she faced a significant amount of backlash for her response to the sexual assault by hamas. listen to what she told dana bash. >> what rape is horrific, sexual assault is horrific. it happens in war situations. terrorist organizations like hamas, obviously are using these as tools. however, i think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against palestinians. 15,000 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes, three quarters of whom are women and children. >> now that was sunday. today is tuesday tonight. jayapal issued a statement about the backlash to those comments, saying that she unequivocally condemns hamas's use of rap