Good evening. I'm William Bringham. Jeff Bennett and I'm N-Novaz are away.

On the news hour tonight, several Israeli soldiers are killed in an ambush in northern Gaza, while further south, floods add to the suffering in crowded refugee camps.

Then, delegates at the UN's Global Climate Summit agree to transition away from fossil fuels, but loopholes remain.

And the Battle in the skies, drone warfare forces both Russia and Ukraine to shift tactics as the war drags

on.

Today and tomorrow is about drones.

The outcome of this war depends on how many drones there will be and how they will be used. Welcome to the news hour. There was fierce combat between Israeli troops and Hamas

militants today across the Gaza Strip as Israel's ground operations met renewed

and heavy resistance from Hamas. Civilians as ever are caught in the middle with the Hamas-run

Gaza Health Ministry saying nearly 19,000 people have been killed in the

enclave since October 7th. John Yang begins our coverage.

In Gaza City, Israeli troops engaged in heavy combat.

Their campaign against combat.

Their campaign against Hamas raging on, even after suffering their heaviest losses in weeks. The IDF says nine soldiers were killed yesterday when they were ambushed in Gaza City's

Shijaya neighborhood.

The military had said operations in Northern Gaza all that wiped out Hamas's hold there.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said setbacks will not deter him.

We had a very difficult day and every day we have precious boys who fall, the true heroes of Israel.

I want to say in the clearest way, we continue to the end.

I say this in the face of great pain but also in the face of international

pressures nothing will stop us we will go to the end to victory no less than that

it comes as global support for Israel's operation is dwindling by the day.

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