Good evening I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amma Navaz on the news hour tonight.

U.S. lawmakers wrangle over whether to give Ukraine more military aid as current

funding is set to run out by the end of the year. Israeli troops move south into

Gaza's second largest city displacing thousands of civilians including some

who already fled fighting in the north. And Palestinians freed by Israel and their

families reflect on the resumption of fighting and their time in prison.

We feel happiness because our child is free, but this happiness is not complete because the price to get freedom for our kids was very

expensive and the price was our people's blood in the news hour. A new phase in the bloody war in Gaza is now underway.

Israel is assaulting the largest city in the south, Con Yunus.

Most of Gaza's population is now in that region.

The war is now nearly two months old, with the death toll fast approaching 20,000, mostly

Palestinian.

Despite pleas for more precision and fewer civilian killings from the U.S. and other Israeli partners, the thunderous campaign

to root out Hamas in Gaza continues.

After weeks of fighting Hamas in Gaza's north and a week-long pause in fighting, a new phase in the war as

the IDF enters Gaza's second largest city.

Those who thought that the IDF would not know how to renew the fighting after the pause in fighting were mistaken in Hamas is already feeling this.

Israel believes that Yaya Sinwar Hamas's leader in Gaza is hiding among civilians there.

IDF commanders on the ground said this fight is their campaign's fiercest so far

as they aim to wipe out Hamas.

According to the UN, Israel's bombardment has so far destroyed more than 46,000 housing

units in Gaza and displaced an estimated 1.87 million people are about 80% of the entire population.

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