 Paul. Paul. Nice to meet you. Let's go over here in the lights a little better. I'm with Associated Press. Nice to meet you. Paul O'Brien, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. First name PAUL. Last name O, Apostrophe, B-R-I-E-V, B-R-I-E-N. Okay. Any about the demonstration? We've organized this demonstration to bring home the fact that people are dying for all. No, I got to say that again. I'm sorry. It's all right. There's a producer back in the office. Okay. We organized this demonstration to bring attention to the loss of life that is happening today in Gaza. After the war crime that Hamas committed on October 7th, we have seen more than 11,000 Gazans die. 5,000 children. This demonstration is to bring home to President Biden the fact that he's not doing enough to stop the violence in Gaza. The protesters here arguing for the fact that a ceasefire could be accomplished if the hostage is released. Can you address that? We want the hostages released. We also want Palestinian administrative detainees released in Israeli jails. But more important than anything if you really care about human rights in terms of the numbers of lives being lost, we need to stop the violence and the attacks on civilians. We need to stop sending arms into the region because the scale of destruction and loss of life is not helping anyone. Is the administrative detainees that explain the attack on the music festival in the region into Israel from Hamas? We believe that what happened on October 7th are war crimes and we've documented them as such. What Hamas did were war crimes and should be held to account under international law. At the same time, we have many, many more Palestinians being detained in a system that is completely secret. They're not able to access why they're being detained and they're being held indefinitely. The process through which they can be detained can go on and on and on. So we don't believe that there is a basis to say one war crime hence deserves another. The first was a war crime, but what's happening now in Gaza are also war crimes and they need to stop. So a lot of people myself are a little confused as to was this the attack, like the culmination of a spasm of violence as a result of the detainees who were held indefinitely. I can speak to it a little bit. Amnesty's research is not able to tell you why Hamas chose to take civilian lives on October 7th. They certainly targeted civilians and did so in a way that are war crimes. What we are able to tell you is that the context that led up to October 7th was one in which there was systemic oppression of whole Palestinian populations. We found after four years of research that there is a legal state of apartheid ongoing not just in Gaza, not just in the West Bank but in Israel proper where Palestinians are treated as a racial group with less human rights than Israelis. That system was one of the root causes of the violence that has happened in that region. That's not to in any way excuse what Hamas did but it is part of our understanding of the context. What is the status of a two state solution to this problem? Amnesty doesn't provide either proposals or analysis of political solutions. What we can tell you about is what human rights conditions are like on the ground and what they should be like. Our view on a political solution will only go as far as to say whatever it is it needs to guarantee equal human rights for everybody in the region. All Israelis who need to live in safety and security, all Palestinians who also need that and economic opportunity and political voice. Only when you have that are you going to have the conditions for peace and security in the region. It sounds like a pretty high bar. I mean I've been covering this issue for about 37 years and here we are. I have never heard anybody explain how having differential human rights conditions for two different populations is going to guarantee peace and security in the long term. Part of the reason that we are not seeing solutions over the last decades is because the only solutions we've found have created structural differences in human rights for the different populations. It's our belief that if you want peace and security you guarantee human rights for everyone in the region. Is honesty ever involved in side negotiations or consulted as to maybe finding a solution? No, we're asked for our research on human rights conditions on the ground. What we are asked is to what extent are systemic forms of human rights denial contributing to the sense of oppression that different groups feel and what we found in that context is that essentially a set of laws that violate the international law of apartheid are leading to that sense of oppression by Palestinian populations. Anything else you want to add? Just to summarise what our asks are we want to cease fire by all parties. We want the hostages returned safely, unconditionally and immediately. We want those who are administratively detained in Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons to be released and we want the United States to stop sending arms into the region. Thank you. Thanks for asking.