In the day's other headlines, Hamas is still reviewing the U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza.

But the war continues.

And tonight, Israel blocked a flotilla of ships trying to break through Israel's blockade

of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Nick Schifrin reports.

Hamas might no longer control Gaza's streets, but tonight it controls the war's fate.

Arab mediators tell PBS NewsHour they've held positive meetings with Hamas, but the group

needs more time and is concerned about requirements to disarm and release Israeli hostages.

Before Israel withdraws from Gaza.

And so Hamas faces a choice, end the war and its brutal toll or hold out for a better deal,

leaving Gazans vulnerable to Israel's promise to occupy all of Gaza's city.

Residents and rescue workers who remain in the city today face their fate.

A strike on a U.N. school turned shelter that Israel said targeted Hamas, left a child who's

seen so much in shock.

Some 400,000 Gaza City residents have fled, today packing the sole remaining road to the south.

Israel warned this was their, quote, last opportunity to leave Gaza City.

And so 28-year-old Ahmed Arafat loaded his cart, taking what he could, leaving behind what

his family said he must.

I did not want to leave.

My family is still in the north,

and my father sent me to the south to drop my uncle and not come back.

What can we say?

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