Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is on assignment. On the news hour tonight,

in a White House visit with the King of Jordan, President Trump doubles down on his plan to

take over Gaza and push out Palestinians. We examine the long-term effects of the Trump

administration's plans to cut medical research

funding and how students and teachers whose schools were destroyed by the California wildfires

are finding ways to keep learning.

Sure, we lost our building, but we still have each other, and I think that that has been

a huge factor in students being able to move forward.

Welcome to the News Hour. The fate of the ceasefire in Gaza appears fragile tonight after Israel

today threatened to restart the war unless Hamas releases all Israeli hostages by Saturday. The

overall fate of Gaza was the focus of an Oval Office meeting between President Trump and

Jordan's King Abdullah, in which Trump vowed to, quote, take the enclave. Nick Schiffran

reports.

Tonight on the outskirts of Gaza, Israeli troops are once again preparing for war. Hamas is

threatening to delay an upcoming hostage release because it says Israel is withholding

tense. So today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu replied with his own threat.

If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end, and the military

will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated.

The Hamas-Israel agreement facilitated by the Biden and Trump administrations called

for the gradual release of hostages over months. The new deadline was first set by President

Trump after he saw the condition of released

Israeli hostages.

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