Mr. New York, Mark Simone, 710 W-O-R.

Well, let's turn to one of the smartest guys in the world, the brilliant columnist, Jake Novak.

You should be following on Twitter. It's Jake, Jake, NY, Twitter, and Substack.

It's Jake Novak at Substack.com. Jake Novak, how you doing?

I'm doing okay. I'm trying to function with a not enough sleep. I've been following all the news coming out and from my sources of Israel and

all over the world and here in the states, but trying to stay awake as best I can't.

So we got a lot of hostages left. There's one report that maybe 20 of them

are dead and they're not telling us that. Hamas is not telling us. What's the latest done all that?

Well, I received some reports from some of my sources yesterday afternoon that a major, major

hostage rescue is underway in Israel right now.

Obviously, it's not going to get media coverage,

and I hope it doesn't until it's successfully completed.

I also don't know if it's 100% confirmed.

These are people who are in the field and probably in the support groups.

Obviously, the people doing the rescue, if it is going on,

aren't going to be emailing me. But this could be, this sounds plausible to me because of two things. First,

as we've seen all these mass surrenders by Hamas terrorists over the last couple of weeks.

And, of course, the last couple of days. And, of course, I hope you've noticed how incredibly well-fed all of them are, if you know what I mean.

They're not starving. But all joking aside, that's a big thing to happen. That happened in public. That means there's probably a lot more who have been eliminated in addition to being captured. The other reason why I think it's plausible that we're in the midst of a big hostage rescue operation right now is that the elite elite elite 98 brigade, it's known as the 98 in Israel,

went into Conunits probably 48 hours ago, maybe a little bit more, and they don't go in there

to sightsee.

So I think that we could, you know, I'm, you know, this is why I'm a little tired.

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