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Welcome to the buck brief we're going to talk about the ongoing war in Gaza and what the implications of this are likely to be in the days ahead.

First of all, you've probably seen the photos of a very heavy damage to parts of the main areas inhabited areas of Gaza, serious destruction from these air strikes.

Israelis have called up 300,000 reservists and they're going to be making their way through what will be a hellish urban warfare landscape.

This is a part of what's coming that I think not that many people have really prepared for this group Hamas is a guerrilla warfare unit essentially and this is what they this is what they train in unconventional obviously terrorist tactics, but they'll be using their familiarity with this terrain and their ability to set up in advance to try to bring about heavy Israelis.

We also know that they have hostages that they have seized over 150s reporting that we've seen so far and there are number of missions and efforts underway to try to get those hostages that obviously complicates matters, though, because you don't want to have hostages hostages who are casualties from say an air strike in this process.

So there have to be precautions taken as a result of that as well as the Israelis taking precautions to limit general civilian casualties to the greatest degree possible in Gaza, but I do think that given the atrocities that Hamas has committed against Gaza.

Well, the atrocities in the attack, the sneak attack that we've seen, I'm sorry that Hamas committed against Israel, the Israelis are going to be even more willing to go with attacks and strikes that have risks, there will be risks entailed in these in these moves.

There will be risks to some of the civilian population. We know that there is an effort to try to get some of these civilians out through Egypt through the land border crossing.

Understandably, there's a lot of complications here with who you're going to let out, you're going to let out people who are claiming to just be innocent civilians, but they're actually Hamas fighters.

I think that Israel's ability here to both bring together its intelligence, air superiority, and its exceptionally capable ground forces means that it is up for this fight.

It is ready to take this fight to the enemy, but this could get very complicated very quickly.

If that northern front with Hezbollah were to open up, Hezbollah is better armed, better equipped, better trained than Hamas is and would be able to fire so many rockets, so many missiles at Israel that it would overwhelm some of the capabilities of the iron dome.

Iron dome is obviously not a perfect system.

Sometimes there are things that will there are rockets, there are missiles that will get through in those cost civilian casualties and damage.

So the possibility of Hezbollah entering this conflict is a very concerned, that's a very concerning development.

It's why Tony Blinken has gone over to this part of the world, that's why Tony Blinken is over there negotiating right now trying to do what he can on behalf of the Biden administration to prevent this escalation into a wider war.

Because the way things go here, if it's dominoes, you have Hamas already igniting this conflict with the most horrific terrorist attack we've seen since 9-11.

Now you have the possibility of Hezbollah entering. Remember Hezbollah is a proxy force effectively of Iran.

Hezbollah is an extension of Iranian Ames in the region and Hezbollah works very closely and is trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

Hezbollah means Jerusalem and Arabic or in this case, I guess I think it's probably the same as far as I don't know.

The point is, hezbollah is about Jerusalem and they use IRGC, hezbollah's training, that's the external operations arm of the IRGC.

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