The continuing war in Israel continues to have lasting impacts right here in Texas. We've heard stories about Texans who managed to escape from the country with their lives.

That includes students and faculty from Dallas Baptist University.

Others can only sit back here and watch as their families in Israel deal with the Hamas invasion, and the fighting that's happened ever since.

There's a Texan named Matt Minchen. He used to be a soldier with the Israeli Defense Forces.