In the coming week, diplomatic efforts intensify around the Israel-Hamas war.

The UK hosts the AI Safety Summit, and China's foreign minister Wang Yi visits Washington.

It's October 26, 2003 in time for the world next week. I'm Bob McMahon.

And I'm Carly Ann Robbins.

So Bob, let's start again with the Israel Hamas War.

And this week, Hamas released four hostages and Israel finally allowed in a limited

number of trucks carrying food and medicine from Egypt. But the death toll in Gaza continues

to rise and a growing number of countries are calling for, if not a ceasefire, humanitarian

pause, that's what the EU is talking about, to get aid in. Do you see any sign that the

Israelis are open to diplomatic proposals?

Not necessarily. I mean, it depends on what the diplomatic proposals contain, but there's a

pattern here, which is that there is a strenuous attempt wherever meetings are taking place.

And let's just cite the UN Security Council, for example, to just declare a ceasefire once and for all, and then get aid moving in, calm things down,

and so forth. The Israelis, you know, this is still less than three weeks since the attacks occurred.

They are very keen to do what they've sworn to do since the beginning of this campaign,

which is eradicate Hamas. and they see these delays as only

helping Hamas in able to squirrel away weapons, regroup, generate further support, and so forth.

And so they want to get in there, and they have vowed various Israeli leaders in recent days

about there's going to be a land campaign. It's going to happen, and they are going to go and eradicate Hamas. Now, there's all sorts of commentary about the ability to actually

eradicate Hamas and what sort of blowback such a campaign can cause and so forth. But in terms

of your original question, what the Israelis want to do, this is for them existential, and they

want to go in after Hamas. You know, it's also worth pointing out a new statement that was reported from Hamas,

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