Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away on the news hour tonight.

The Israel-Hamas War spills over into the Red Sea where hooty rebels are

attacking commercial ships and disrupting global trade. Immigrant rights

groups sue over a new Texas law that empowers local police to arrest people suspected of

entering the US illegally. Will the measure hold up in court? And Ukraine

races to shore up its power systems in anticipation of Russian attacks on the energy

grid in the heart of winter.

We are preparing physically, we are preparing equipment, we are preparing mentally preparing mentally it's scary of course it's scary

But electricity is the lifeblood of the economy we have to maintain it Welcome to the news hour.

Israel's campaign in Gaza continues tonight with deadly effect as diplomats work to secure another deal to pause the fighting to release hostages held by Hamas in return for Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody.

Meantime, an attempt at the United Nations to secure a vote in the Security Council on a ceasefire was delayed by at least one more day.

William Bringham reports.

Raffa, the very area where Israel told displaced Palestinians to seek shelter has become a battle zone.

We have never seen such weapons.

I witnessed the 1956 war and there was not anything like this.

I witnessed the 1967 war and there was not anything like this. I witnessed the 1967 war and there was not

something like this. This is a barbarian act. Israel is the biggest criminal.

Excavators comb through the rubble of what was once a home.

It was flattened by Israeli airstrikes overnight.

Some two dozen people died, including a newborn baby

and her two-year-old brother. Their injured father in a hospital bed grieves

his dead children. We were sleeping. We were buried while sleeping.

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