Good evening I'm on the Navas and I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight. Heavy

air strikes continue across Gaza as thousands of civilians crowd into ever shrinking

safe zones in the far south.

We speak to the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia about the war and wider diplomatic challenges in the Middle East.

And who gets access to medical treatment for drug addiction

highlights the racial inequities of the opioid epidemic?

There's still this spot that black people who have an opiate use disorder have to be

controlled in the way that white people don't.

That black people are not as trustworthy with their medications. Welcome to the news hour. The US vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution today that called for a ceasefire in

Gaza. The U.S. was the lone no vote in the 15-member council. The move came as the

UN and others are ramping up already dire warnings of humanitarian

catastrophe if more aid isn't sent into Gaza soon and if the fighting isn't stopped.

According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, nearly 17.5,000 Palestinians have been killed since the

October 7th Hamas terror attacks against Israel.

And the Israeli air and ground campaign is not slowing down.

In southern Gaza, explosions shroud the skyline from afar and up close shake the streets.

Israel has ramped up its airstrikes across the strip hitting 450 sites in just 24 hours.

More destruction means fewer places to shelter.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are now crammed into a fast shrinking space.

Eunice Al-Halabi finished morning prayer with his family when a strike hit his home.

This is not a life, death or destruction, it's all the same.

Those forced out of their home might as well be dead.

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