From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington broadcast center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, the Armstrong and Getty show.

The Israeli Defense Ministry declaring a total siege of the Gaza Strip, no power, no water, no electricity.

They say they are dealing with, quote, barbaric terrorists, and that, quote, we will act accordingly.

On the ground in Hamas control Gaza, ambulance is rushing to the scene.

Israel's retaliatory strikes leaving more than 600 dead.

The retaliation comes 48 hours after a sweeping coordinated and brutal assault that left much of Israel under attack.

The worst attack on Israel in 50 years.

More than 900 dead, period Israel, at least 11 Americans among them.

It's a deadliest day in Israel's history at this point, and Israel and Hamas are exchanging rocket fire as we speak.

One interesting thing that I became aware of in recent hours is Richard Engel on NBC News.

He went to where that concert was being held in the desert. He went to that location.

That's just a horrifying story, the way they just showed up on motorcycles, rode into that concert and started firing on people.

Then they had the terrorist scumbag lunatic murdering nihilists.

They had gone to the parking lot.

They were waiting behind the cars knowing that people would run toward the parking lot.

Then when people got close to the parking lot, they stood up and started mowing those people down.

That's, I ended up with 300 people dead just in that location.

But Richard Engel made the point this morning on NBC that he was picturing this all being fairly quickly.

They breached the walls. They cut the fences. They did whatever they got through in a whole bunch of different locations.

Came in, murdered people, grabbed hostages and got out.

But for instance, that concert venue was a four hour or deal.

And how were the Israeli defense forces not able to respond more quickly to that?

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