Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz as away. On the news hour tonight,

Maine becomes the second state to ban former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot for insurrection

raising more questions about the 2024 campaign

Then we examine the surprising resilience of the U.S. economy in

2023 and how it upended expectations of a recession.

And recent viral videos of retail theft prompt widespread claims of rampant crime.

But data tells a different and more complex story.

I think one of the reasons retail has mentioned theft so much is that it provides a narrative for things

that are happening elsewhere in the news hour. Israeli forces are widening their offensive on the central Gaza strip after flattening

much of the north.

They targeted several refugee camps there today, and the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry reports Israeli

airstrikes killed at least 187 Palestinians since yesterday.

Meantime tens of thousands of Gazans fled to the overwhelmed southern town of Raffa, many packing into tents hoping to find

safety.

But airstrikes there left some wondering why they left their homes in the first place.

We escaped from the shelling and came to Rafah, deemed a safe area.

The Israeli army followed us with the rockets to the safe area.

We should have stayed at home and died there. Why did they ask us to leave? They're

liars. They ask you to evacuate and send you to a certain area and after many families

gather there, they hit you.

And in a rare move, Israel admitted wrongdoing yesterday

for Sunday's air strike on the Magazi refugee camp

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