Good evening, everyone.

We begin tonight with day four of the Israel Hamas War, which now includes a hostage crisis.

We'll get to more on that later in the show.

The surprise attack by the Gaza-based militant group Hamas shocked Israelis and the world.

After the group launched an attack on a concert in southern Israel near the Gaza border and armed

men kidnapped or murdered Israeli citizens in their homes and cars in several border areas.

Israeli defense forces, the IDF, have since bombarded Gaza with aerial bombs, with Israeli

officials telling residents to leave the blockaded strip of land, which now faces an Israeli

siege and a potential ground operation.

The Israeli government announced today that it has regained control of the towns attacked

by Hamas.

So the devastation is vast, and the destruction on either side of the wall between southern

Israel and Gaza is almost unfathomable.

The Israeli military said it struck hundreds of Hamas targets overnight in Gaza.

Tens of thousands of residents fled their homes and as relentless airstrikes leveled buildings.

Fishing boats and other vessels were on fire.

After Israel pounded the port Gaza City with airstrikes, the port of Gaza City with airstrikes.

You can see here the wide-scale destruction in Gaza's Jabaliyah refugee camp caused by

Israeli airstrikes in the area, and in the city of Ashkelon, Hamas said it launched a

major missile attack in response to the displacement of civilians.

Many of the rockets fired towards Ashkelon were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile

defense system, which is designed to shoot down incoming projectiles.

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