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

Israel launches another round of heavy airstrikes in central and southern Gaza, including in refugee

camps.

We hear from the Israeli ambassador to the United States.

A major caravan of migrants travels through Mexico as record numbers continue to arrive at the southern border.

And meat grown in laboratories moves closer to store shelves after clearing several regulatory hurdles

potentially changing the future of the US diet.

We're going to solve the climate problem. We definitely need to move from

intensive animal farming that is eating up a

third of our planet today to an entirely different approach. Welcome to the news hour. Israel's ground offensive in the Gaza Strip continues to expand, as does the human cost.

Health officials there say the 11 week-long war has already claimed the lives of more than 21,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.

As Israeli tanks bombard the Gaza Strip, the peace plan proposed by Egypt and Qatar seems far from reach.

Last night a Hamas official said they've received ceasefire proposals from

multiple countries.

The battle and the movement are always open to all initiatives that achieve

a comprehensive cessation of aggression against our people and to everything that achieves

the highest interests of our people.

Our people do not wait for temporary truces.

Israel meanwhile shows no sign of slowing down its offensive.

The New York Times verified this video from a photographer embedded with Israeli soldiers.

It shows a large group of detained Palestinians stripped to their underwear, some appeared

to be children or elderly.

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