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And joining us now to discuss Gaza aid and the war in general is Colonel Darren Gobb. He's a geopolitical strategist, as well as a Blackhawk helicopter pilot and former battalion commander. It's good to see you, Darren. It's been a while. The U.N. protests that the U.S. and Israel have control over aid, yet there was significant evidence that there were collaboration between Hamas and the U.N. Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA. So what are your thoughts over who should be administering the aid? Well, it may not be the United States long term, but for now, it's a better solution than, of course, the U.N. because, as you mentioned, the U.N. and Hamas were working hand in hand in most things. There's, like you said, substantial evidence of that, video pictures, self-admissions, all of the above exists. So we know it was happening. Now it's just a question of how do you put a mandate on this, I guess, to make sure aid is flowing to the people who do need it and to the right people, by the way, because Hamas made it a habit of making sure they took as much of it as possible for themselves at the expense of the people there. But again, this may not be the long term solution, but it is certainly better than letting the U.N. continue going the route they were already going for years before this. Darren, for a long time, aid and other resources have been siphoned off by Hamas. And in the saying, as the saying goes, you don't bite the hand that feeds you. Is Israel and the U.S. looking to take control over this aid distribution so as to shift sort of the understanding of the people on the ground as to what Israel and the U.S.'s role is in this conflict? Well, whether it's intentional or just a byproduct of doing this, I think that's going to be a partial result is in the end, the people will know that the U.S. and Israel or maybe our allies are ultimately the ones who are going to bring them the aid they're seeking, but not stealing it from them at the same time. And they'll see the difference between what Hamas did and what we will do. That can be very important to not only the now, but moving forward to the future as well. Yeah. And moving on a little bit more broadly than just the aid yesterday, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of course, announced the killing of Hamas leader Mohamed Sinwar in the city of Khan Yunis. So what does this signify in terms of the stage of the war? Well, one thing, it continues to show that the leadership targeting and intelligence gathering of Israel, of Hamas' leaders is ongoing and will continue while the war is continuing on as well. I would not want to be the next person assigned as the leader of Hamas right now, who, by the way, is probably, you know, 20 percent of the strength that they used to be in the first place. What this does also cause is a bit of a challenge when it comes to who are you negotiating with? Because they're not all the same people in the next leader up could have a different vision of how things are supposed to operate. And now you're dealing with someone who may forego any potential deals that were even close to being reached. So it's a good thing that we're eliminating these leaders of Hamas and just continuing continuing to eradicate them. But there are some side challenges, like I mentioned, that have to be accounted for as well. How much strength does Hamas have left and how much longer should should this conflict continue? Well, it's hard to say exactly how long it'll continue. I think Israel is making the steps now to end this could be within the next six months, frankly, as they can change their tactics, I guess, from targeted strikes purely to just sweeping and clearing and owning the land, trying to own at least 75 percent of Gaza and moving the people there into about 25 percent of the space that's left. That's a changing strategy. It needed to happen. The only way to fix Gaza is to own Gaza. And I would be surprised if in the next six months you don't see this thing come to an end because of what Israel is doing in this with this change tactics. And hopefully the world will realize that this whole thing could have just simply been avoided by Hamas surrendering and laying down their arms and letting the people of Gaza actually improve their lives with some outside assistance.