John Kirby is Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council in the White House.
Speaking with media:
- There
is no intention to put US boots on ground after Israel attack - Expect additional security requests from Israel, US will try to
fulfill those needs as fast as possible - US Still believes Israel-Saudi normalization should be encouraged
- Can’t speculate at this stage how Saudi-Israel normalization
efforts will be impacted - Would not go so far as to say Hamas attack has paused
normalization talks between Israel and Saudi - Have not seen hard tangible evidence that Iran was directly
involved in Hamas attacks on Israel - Call for supplemental request to be approved to keep up support
for Ukraine - If we need additional defense funding for Israel, we will go back
to congress - Both Ukraine and Israel can be supported simultaneously by US
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A note for the diary, US President Biden will be making pubic comments on the attack at 1pm US Eastern time on Tuesday, 10 October 2023.