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So with all that kind of, you know, me ranting,

Toddok, what is your sense of where things stand

in terms of the so-called ceasefire and the humanitarian situation?

Yeah, thanks, thanks for that, Derek.

I mean, you kind of broke it down pretty well yourself.

I'm kind of, the way I'm looking at Gaza today and the period that it's in right now,

kind of feels like it's really in this period of purgatory as basically as the world decides Gaza's fate, right?

And as you said, Gaza has now been split in two, about 53% and counting.

As you said, you know, Israel is expanding that yellow line that bisects Gaza about in half between east and west.

Israel controls the east side, Hamas, still maintains some form of control over the west side.

And basically, you know, this is, we're entering month four, we've entered month four of the so-called ceasefire.

We've gone from phase one, which was supposed to be just the ceasefire, the handover of

hostages and prisoners of war, the continuation of humanitarian aid. And we've seen,

the only thing that we've seen actually follow through is the handover of the hostages and

prisoners of war. Israel has continued, as you mentioned, carrying out air strikesrikes on a daily basis. Basically, Palestinians

in Gaza are thankful that the killing has gone down from 90 to 100 people per day to,

you know, 20 to 30. And that's pretty much, you know, it's obviously a very grim way of putting

it, but that's the reality on you know, it's obviously a very grim way of putting it, but that's,

that's the reality on the ground. And again, as, you know, basically as the world is kind of playing

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