 What is hell? I mean, I think the daily pictures out of Gaza, I think, illustrate that. We see Gaza, basically, to a large extent, flattened. You're seeing thousands, thousands of people killed, many of them deservingly so as supporters and members of Hamas, some not so children, many children have been killed, which is always a sad to see. But of course, from the perspective of Israel necessary, there is no real alternative for Israel to defend itself without this kind of bombing. But on Friday, I think we got a sense of how hellish war can be and how just the uncertainties, the fog of war, as it's described, in particular fighting an enemy like Hamas, who's fighters are in civilian clothes, who are regularly set booby traps and use Hebrew and use the sounds of children and regularly finding ways to lure Israeli soldiers into situations where they are killed. Well, on Friday, it turns out that three of the hostages, three male hostages, managed either to escape or were abandoned or somehow freed themselves from Hamas. They had been hiding in a particular home. They had been trying to send SOS and help signals out. I guess nobody saw these signals. And then when they thought Israeli soldiers might be approaching, they ventured out with a white flag trying to basically get the attention of the Israeli soldiers. Israeli soldiers saw people approaching, unidentified, and shot them. The first round of gunfire killed two of the hostages. A commanding officer then required that the soldiers stop firing, but one of the soldiers continued and killed the third. In other words, Israeli troops on Friday killed three of the hostages they were there to save. I mean, this is a massive tragedy on top of tragedy on top of tragedy that Israel has suffered really from October 7. And it's something that I think has resonated throughout Israeli society. Everybody has been traumatized over the weekend over. I think the soldiers who did the shooting will be traumatized really for life. I don't know. I think, no matter how much they are told that this is what happens in war, and this is kind of the consequence of war, they won't be able to forgive themselves or forget this completely. And it is going to hound them. I feel sorry for them in the future. Of course, the families of the three hostages that were killed. And this is a point worth emphasizing. The Israeli forces have now re-emphasized, so the three hostages were carrying a white flag, re-emphasized, don't shoot at a white flag, even if you're afraid of a booby trap. They spoke Hebrew, but sort of many of the terrorist speak Hebrew. This is what happens when you deal with an enemy like this. And these things will happen. And it's quite possible that some of Israel's bombing has killed some hostages. This is why I said early on Israel has to engage in this war under the assumption that the hostages are dead. Because you cannot fight a war against a group like Hamas on edge that anything you might do is going to cause damage to your hostages. You have to defeat them. That has to be priority number one. You have to defeat them, and you have to defeat them thoroughly, and you have to defeat them quickly. And again, the more time Israel takes, the greater the international pressure on it. And you have to thoroughly defeat them. You have to destroy them completely, thoroughly. And you have to bring the Palestinian morale, the Palestinian view of the world to a low so that they reconsider the view of Israel, they reconsider their view of themselves. Sadly, I don't know that this could have been avoided given the conditions of battle. I don't think it's worth speculating about whether this could be avoided given the conditions of battle. The Israeli army will now be more alert to the possibility that there are hostages out there whether that can actually be implemented under the conditions of intense fighting. This was all in an area, by the way, where there was intense fighting going on between Hamas and the Israeli soldiers. Whether more lives of hostages can be saved, it is clear that the Hamas does not want to negotiate, is not interested in a ceasefire, does not want to release any more hostages. It's not clear how many they have. It's not clear how many are alive. It's not clear how many they have control over. I mean, hostages are being held in all kinds of places, and it's not clear that the Hamas even knows who they have. It's also clear that they don't want to release some of them because of the horrors they've inflicted on them, and they don't want those horrors to get out. Another female hostage over the weekend was announced that had been killed by Hamas. I think it was one of the women who were raped brutally before she was captured. Israel just has to get on, get on with the job, of capturing and killing the entire Hamas leadership and capturing as many of the Hamas fighters as possible, and demoralizing the Palestinian people as much as they can. One of the fines over the weekend was a large tunnel. I mean, this is quite a tunnel underneath Gaza, particularly in the north, reaching out all the way basically to the Israeli border. It is pretty obvious that this tunnel was part of the process of preparation, and from which the October 7th assault was made, the entry rate to the tunnel is just a few hundred yards from the actual crossing into Israel and a nearby military base. A military base that was overrun on October 7th, where a lot of soldiers died. It stretches over two and a half miles. It's linked with a sprawling tunnel network across Gaza. So it's linked to the other tunnels that are connected. But this one is wide enough for cars to pass through. And vehicles were brought to the mouth of this tunnel on October 7th to launch the attack that they initiated. It is made of materials that they haven't seen in other tunnels. It is more solid. And it also seems to be another Israeli intelligence failure in not knowing that the tunnel existed so close to the Israeli border. And not knowing of its size and capacity, it just shows the limitations, I guess, ultimately of intelligence. And one of the elements of this is, I mean, this tunnel, you can extrapolate on the rest of the 500 kilometers of tunnels, this tunnel must have cost tens of millions of dollars to build and tens of millions of dollars that could have gone to bettering the lives of Gazans. But this is the kind of, this is what Hamas did with the money that they got, including from the United States, but from Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Iran and everybody else. The tunnel has ventilation, electricity, and is 55 yards underground in some points. Millions and millions of dollars went into building this thing. All right, other than that, battles continue. It's very fierce. It's fierce, both in the North and in the South. Israel, I think in some sense, they keep thinking they've got control of the North. But Hamas still has men underground. They keep popping up. And re-establishing themselves, in particular neighborhoods, Israel goes in, destroys them, destroys some of the tunnels. They pop up somewhere else. Others pop up somewhere else. This is just going to take a long time because you're not fighting a final war. You're fighting a war where the enemy is really unseen for most of the time and can move from place to place without you noticing. So until Israel literally demolishes the entire tunnel system, which is going to take a long time, very, very difficult engineering task, it is going to still be dealing with these Hamas terrorists coming out of different holes in the ground and attacking. This is the kind of urban warfare. This is worse than normal urban warfare because of the tunnel system. But this is the kind of urban warfare that is so difficult and is so deadly and is so hellish. And think about a soldier who is in this for weeks upon weeks. It's not surprising the mistakes are made. I also told you, I think the other day, that over 20% of all Israel's casualties in Gaza have been a result of Fendi fire. That, again, is tragic and horrific. But pretty standard, particularly in an urban warfare like this. But even in Gulf War I, well over 20% of the US's casualties in that war were caused by Fendi fire. So it's war is hell. It's just a disaster. It should be avoided. And when you cannot avoid it, it needs to be done with massive force as quickly and as thoroughly as possible to get it over with quickly because of how hellish it ultimately is.