A Hamas senior official invited US billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday to visit the Palestinian Gaza Strip to see the extent of destruction caused by the Israeli bombardment.

“We invite him to visit Gaza to see the extent of the massacres and destruction committed against the people of Gaza, in compliance with the standards of objectivity and credibility,” Hamas’ senior official Osama Hamdan said in a press conference in Beirut.

“Within 50 days, Israel dropped more than 40,000 tonnes of explosives on the homes of defenseless Gazans,” he said, “I call on US President Biden to review the US relationship with Israel and to stop supplying them with weapons.”

[That’s what happens when you start a war with your neighbor, which is why that is usually a bad idea if you don’t have an air force. I notice that Hamdan is whining from Beirut, too. Yet another long-distance martyrdom cheerleader, it seems. At any rate, Musk would be insane to take them up on it, as he’d be putting himself in position to become the world’s highest-value hostage. — Ed]