The Mark Simone show continues on 710 WOR.

In for Mark, here again is Larry Menti.

A lot happening in the war between Israel and Hamas.

Heavy bombing reported in Gaza overnight.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is going to Israel next week.

And Israel's defense minister warns that time is running out for a diplomatic solution.

ABC correspondent Jordana Miller is in Israel and has the very latest.

And I guess the one, there's a lot of headlines coming out of Israel but I guess the one

that got my attention and shocked a lot of people is the warning that this is now a seven front

war can you explain that right that was uh the remarks by the defense minister yoav galant

uh and he said this is a multi-pronged war, and those seven

fronts, I mean, we could go through them.

One is Gaza.

One is the West Bank.

One is Lebanon.

One is Syria.

And the other two are Iraq and Iran, I'm sorry, Yemen and Iran. And that's because

Iran's proxies like the Houthis have been firing on the southern city of a lot. And, you know,

even though Iran obviously has no border with Israel, it is pulling the strings behind several of the enemies, including Hezbollah.

And, of course, it also trained and gave a lot of money to Hamas over the years.

So, you know, this has become a multi, you know, a theater of war with several different, you know, enemies working at once.

And that's the danger here is that it could escalate into a regional war.

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