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Malcolm online conference of presidents, major American Jewish organizations is with me

and we're very pleased to welcome Alex Traman. American Jewish

organizations is with me and we're very pleased to welcome Alex Traman, CEO and Jerusalem

Bureau Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate.

Alex Gaza, my last understanding is that the IDF is in control of Philadelphia route, that is the

international border with Saanah with Egypt.

At the same time, there are said to be Hamas gangsters still underground and the 50 or so

tunnels discovered maybe there are more are being addressed by the IDF but perhaps

there's still people coming in and out weapons coming in and out. I don't know. In the north I'm told

that the IDF is ready, it's grown chubby in the foxholes eating and not

advancing as it's trained to do, and that the ambition when and if it goes and the

headlines continue to make the word loom useful I'm told that driving the Hezbollah north of the Lutani River would be an adequate

war aim. Do you want to comment first on Gaza and then on Hezbollah and its threat in the north. Good evening to you, Alex.

Good evening, John. Good evening, Malcolm. Thank you so much. Yes, obviously we're talking

about two fronts, which is something that Israel has to deal with is

very very potent front both on the north and the south that you mentioned Hamas

first this is where the war started and every day that the IDF is operating in

Raf is justifying why it had to go into Rafach. Remember the United States

didn't want Israel to go into Rafach said that they couldn't perform an

operation there but Israel in fact moved the overwhelming majority of the

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