Jared Kushner

They've attacked Israel many times in the past.

There's a lot of discussion about how Israel is an occupying power.

Well, in Gaza in 2005, they withdrew from all the land, and then they say Israel's an apartheid state.

Well, Israel then gave governance of the region to the Palestinians.

And then what's happened is the Palestinian people's lives have now gone down, not up since then.

I will say that under Hamas's leadership in Gaza, the people who have suffered the most are the Palestinian people.

And I've watched cries throughout my time in government from people saying, we want to see the Palestinian people live a better life.

I agree with those people.

I think that the Palestinian people in Gaza are essentially hostages.

In Gaza, you have basically 2.2 million people that are being held hostage by 30,000 Hamas terrorists.

And that's really the problem.

And I would just encourage people to push their attention and energy in this moment and their anger towards Hamas.

Those are the people who are killing innocent civilians, who are

murdering indiscriminately.

And those are the people who have held back the Palestinians from having a better life.

And just finally, what I would say is, what we saw with Hamas was that if you go back to 2007, they basically had just one plan that they did over and over.

And we were very careful to try to monitor very closely and stop the Iranian money and the resources from coming in.

And again, we took a little bit of

criticism from the international community from keeping the border tight.

But unfortunately, every time you'd allow construction materials to go into Gaza, they'd use them to build tunnels, not homes.