Jared Kushner

And I couldn't be prouder to be a friend of Israel, somebody who supports Israel, and somebody who fights very strongly to see Israel survive, succeed, and to achieve its fullest potential.

So I think you did an excellent job of summarizing a lot of the context, but watching what's unfolded over the last 48 hours has been truly heartbreaking to see.

We're still in the early stages of what's developing, but seeing the images on X of militants, terrorists going door to door with machine guns and

gunning down innocent civilians, seeing beheaded Israeli soldiers, seeing young 20-year-olds at a rave dance party to celebrate peace with militants flying in and then shooting machine guns to kill people indiscriminately, seeing young children captive and held prisoner, seeing 80-year-old grandmothers, a Holocaust survivor, also being taken captive.

These are just images and actions that we have not seen in this world since 9-11.

This is a terror attack on the scale of which we have not seen, and it's been incredibly hard for a lot of people to comprehend.

My heart goes out, obviously, to all of the families of the victims, to the families of those who are held in captive now, and to all of Israel, because one of the beautiful things about the state of Israel is that

When one Israeli is hurting, the entire nation comes together.

It's a shame that it's taking an action like this to unify the nation, but I have seen incredibly beautiful signs over the last 48 hours of a country coming together.

The Jewish people have been under oppression before.

The Jewish people know what it's like.

And seeing people rally together to fight for their homeland, to try to reestablish safety is a very beautiful thing to watch.

I wish it wasn't something we had to watch, but it is.

With that being said, though...

The backdrop, I've been speaking to friends over the last couple of days.

I have one friend I spoke with last night who was saying that a good friend messaged him saying, I'm going in, we're going to do some operations to try to free some of the hostages held in one of the kibbutzes.

Messaged him the next morning.

He was one of the first through the door to try to free these hostages.

And he was killed by a Hamas militant.

And sadly, we're going to be hearing many, many more stories of brave Israeli soldiers trying to get these terrorists out of Israel, trying to free innocent civilians who unfortunately are risking their lives to do it.