What's going on, everybody, and welcome back for another episode of Trigger. This is Trit

episode number 489 here on Wednesday, November 1st. It is November. We are one year away from the

2024 presidential election, but we have an election next week, too, here in Virginia. It's

going to be a big one. I'm going to talk about that The dog catcher election. No, it's way more important.

It has way more of an effect on our everyday lives.

Yeah, for sure. All local elections are like that for sure.

Yeah, exactly. So let's talk a little bit about what's going on over in Israel and the Gaza Strip.

As anticipated, the full invasion has gone underway.

Yeah.

You've been following this, you know, kind of tell us what's going on, what the state of the situation is, and kind of, you know, where this is going to go over here.

It's going to be a long engagement, a long war, and potential risks for

outside interference. Well, you know, the ramp up was the numerous raids. And it started

to get more serious when tanks and heavy equipment and bulldozers were involved in some of the

raids. They were pulled back back and then on the 28th

basically the IDF announced yeah that last raid they're staying like this is the invasion the ground

up with the ground phase of our objective in terms of this war has begun so they're clearing out

Hamas positions going very slowly very very methodically, of course.

Hamas.

Chamas.

11 soldiers have been killed.

Idea soldiers have been killed so far.

So in terms of that, those casualties with the soldiers who were killed during the October 7th

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