 The Rafa border crossing into Gaza was closed on November 8, due to an unspecified security circumstance, but US officials were working with Egypt and Israel to get it reopened. US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Badant Patel said, Rafa, which is controlled by Egypt and does not border Israel, is the only point of aid delivery since Israel launched a military assault in Siege of Gaza in retaliation for an attack by Hamas militants from the coastal strip on October 7.Evacuations of. Russian passport holders through the crossing were suspended on Saturday and Sunday after an Israeli strike on an ambulance that was heading to Rafa, but the crossing was open again on Monday and Tuesday. The rules to have departed Gaza continues to be at more than 400, the number I provided up yesterday don't have any additional updates at this time. Outbound inbound traffic at all through Rafa today. It remains closed, as our understanding correct. In your conversations with Egyptians, do they give it all the timeline on when it might be reopened? Again, I'm just not going to parse into the specifics of the parameters as our understanding is that its closure was because of a certain security circumstance. So our expectation is that once that circumstance is resolved, the crossing will be open at the regular intervals that it's been open and the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza and the facilitation of foreign nationals interested in exiting will be able to do so. What I can say and this is not the first time that you've heard me, the Secretary or Matt or others say this and dating back to October 7th, we have laid out in clear terms and we have done so directly with our counterparts and our partners and the Israeli government that there is a moral imperative, a strategic imperative and a responsibility to distinguish between Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians in Gaza and we'll continue to lay out that very clearly and we have also raised directly that we believe that there are additional steps that can be taken by the Israeli government to ensure protection of civilians and we'll be continuing to watch closely. You know it's going to be a good briefing when you have a...