Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told Jake Tapper that they tried to move a group of Palestinians through Egypt’s Rafah crossing yesterday and they were blocked by Hamas.

Here’s the report via CNN’s Natasha Bertrand:

It’d been reported this past week that Egypt wasn’t opening the Rafah crossing. But I think due to international pressure they were beginning to change that policy yesterday. Now we find out that Hamas is blocking it Palestinians from escaping, once again showing the world that they are using their people as human shields.

As far as the water situation in Gaza, I understand that Israel only controls 11 percent of water in the strip. So even if they are turning it back on, it’s not going to help much. The real problem is that Hamas used Palestinian water pipes to make rockets against Israel. That’s why they don’t have water: