Israel Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer said that he wants Americans to understand that the Jewish state is doing "everything we can" to keep civilians safe as the victim totals from the war in the Middle East continue to rise.

"We're doing everything we can to keep civilians out of harm's way," Dermer said in a Sunday interview with ABC News's This Week. "I want the American people to understand this. This war is not going on thousands of miles away — it's literally going on hundreds of yards away, and it's going on at a time when rockets are flying into our country, and we have people running to bomb shelters."

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Dermer said the Israel Defense Forces's method of engaging in war with Hamas is "unprecedented in the history of warfare."

"When you have an enemy right on your border, and you're doing everything to get the civilians of that enemy out of harm's way, I don't think any other country, including the United States — I don't know if you've ever faced a situation like this — would take such great care," Dermer said. "So, we agree with the United States that we want to do everything we can to reduce civilian casualties and to ramp up humanitarian assistance and we'll continue to do that as we prosecute this war."

Dermer's comments come after a growing number of Democrats in Congress are vocalizing their openness to placing conditions on any future aid for Israel to reduce the number of civilian casualties in Gaza. This is the latest divide within the Democratic Party as lawmakers receive pushback from pro-Palestinian activists asking them to address the humanitarian crisis.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said the death toll has surpassed 15,200, per the Associated Press. While the ministry does not differentiate between civilian and combat deaths, it claims 70% of the dead were women and children. On the Israel side, nearly 1,400 people have been killed since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, with most of the victims being civilians, per the Jewish state.

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said during a speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum in California on Saturday that Israel risks a "strategic defeat" if the state cannot work to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Democrats such as Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Summer Lee (D-PA) have called for a ceasefire in the war between Hamas and Israel. Some of their comments have been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as "anti-Israel," leading to the House censuring Tlaib for “promoting false narratives” about the Oct. 7 attack and allegedly calling for the “destruction of the state of Israel."