Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Am the Navaz on the news hour tonight.

Israel kills another senior Hamas commander in Lebanon as the region sits on the brink of a

wider war. We travel to the border area where thousands have already been displaced.

Here in the US a scorching summer is threatening American's way of life and life itself.

The outdoor spaces are becoming uninhabitable now in places like the desert southwest.

And as the Olympics near their close,

the historic moments and remarkable images

that have defined this year's games. Welcome to the news hour. Israel continued its assault in southern Gaza today.

It struck Han Yunus claiming that Hamas fighters still operate there.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 21 Palestinians,

according to medics at the city's Nasr Hospital.

One airstrike killed a Palestine TV journalist, his wife, and three daughters.

Another strike smashed into tents housing displaced people in Al-Mawasi.

That's an area Israel had designated as a humanitarian zone.

Israel also confirmed it killed a senior Hamas commander

in a drone strike in Lebanon.

Meantime diplomatic efforts intensified

to head off an Iranian retaliation against Israel

for the killing last week in Tehran of Hamas political

leader and negotiator Ismail Hanea.

The U.S. Egypt and Qatar called on Hamas and Israel to meet next week in a bid to settle remaining disagreements over a ceasefire and hostage deal.

For some perspective on all this, we turn to Hussein Ibish, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.

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