william wex, the is a senior director of the rocky career center in middle east programs at the atlanta council in washington, dc. and he has more of the expansion of his reading operations to, to southern gaza. israel is unfortunately quite a distance away from achieving as military objectives. so the war will continue until israel feels that it is done. so the given the nature of the expanse of the tunnels, given their inability so far, to take out a number of key commanders. unfortunately, the war is going to continue for some time. uh, hopefully there can be uh, negotiated humanitarian pause coming up in the near term. but over the long term it's going to go for a while. and on the diplomatic front, the secretary of state us extra state anthony blinking is heading back to them. at least it's his 5th trip since the war began. is there any chance he can get any movement on the propose these 5? yes, the ceasefire has been negotiated. all the various elements of it. it's really up to him off right now, whether they will accept what has been produced through the guitar e channel. if they