‘I Take Offense At What You’re Saying!’ Karine Jean-Pierre Claps Back at Reporter Suggesting US Isn’t Doing Enough For Gaza

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made no secret of her displeasure at a reporter’s repeated suggestions that the Biden administration wasn’t doing enough to solve the hostage and humanitarian aid situations in Gaza.

Reporter Andrew Feinberg accused the Biden administration of stalling on conditioning military aid to Israel in exchange for improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

“You said earlier that the president, he’s doing everything he can on getting humanitarian aid into Gaza. I’d have to respectfully suggest that that’s not true,” Feinberg said. “Because it took until seven aid workers were killed last week for the president to even suggest that he would change U.S. policy and possibly condition defense aid on the humanitarian situation in [Gaza]. How can you stand there and say the president is doing everything he can, when for weeks, and weeks, and weeks now, even as NGOs and aid groups warned that famine was imminent, he continued to refuse to pull on that lever and link defense aid to humanitarian aid?”

“So, first of all, the president has done air drops. We’re going to do this — we’ve talked over the last several months how we need to do more and we need to uptick our efforts to get humanitarian aid into Gaza,” Jean-Pierre said, continuing:

We understand what’s going on. We understand what the dire needs there are. And, so, the president has, we’ve announced, we’re going to do this pier, we’ve done these air drops. And so, we have had the conversation with the prime minister multiple times, with the Israeli government almost every day on what needs to be done. And, we’ve had those conversations with them, And so now we are seeing an uptick. That is important, that is indeed what we want to see.

We’ve also been working on doing this hostage deal. The president has been working around the clock. So, I take offense to what you’re saying ’cause it isn’t true. The president has been working around the clock on this hostage deal for months now. For months now…for months now. And that is a way to to ensure there’s a temporary ceasefire that could hopefully hold and lead to something longer, get those hostages home, and get humanitarian aid. And so that is what we have been focusing on, really diligently.

Feinberg didn’t seem impressed by Jean-Pierre’s answer.

“With all due respect, Karine, with all due respect,” he began again. “My question was on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, and the famine that aid groups have warned about for weeks.”

“But that’s the same thing! The hostage deal includes getting humanitarian aid into Gaza,” Jean-Pierre said. “That’s what we’ve been working on, this humanitarian aid to get into Gaza. And, also, get those hostages home.”

Feinberg continued to press his point until Jean-Pierre finally shut him down, referring him to the national security advisor.

As The Times of Israel reported, “Israel’s top official involved in negotiations for a deal to free hostages held in Gaza told cabinet ministers that freeing all 133 captives and remains in a single truce agreement would be impossible, and at best 40 people could be freed.”

Watch the clip above via CSPAN.