Good evening. I'm Amna Navas. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight,

turmoil in the Middle East. Gaza pleads for more food aid and global leaders condemn the Huti

rebels largest attack yet against ships in the Red Sea. Then Israeli and

Palestinian mental health experts work together to address the lasting impact the

conflict is likely to have on children for generations.

When children suffer from extreme trauma as they are.

Their intellectual abilities are damaged,

their ability to create, their ability to imagine.

They're all damaged.

And it was a day of political wrangling on Capitol Hill, with House Republicans holding

dual hearings, scrutinizing the Secretary of Homeland Security and Hunter Biden. Welcome to the news hour.

The The Welcome to the news hour. The Biden administration has spent this day

pressing the Palestinian Authority to reform itself and show it's ready to

govern Gaza after the war.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin carried that message to the authorities president,

Mahmoud Abbas, in the West Bank.

William Bringham reports.

The meeting between Blinkin and Abbas Bringham reports.

The meeting between Blincken and Abbas was ostensibly about what happens in Gaza once Israel's

war on Hamas is over.

But behind the scenes, there was also talk of how the elderly president can

regain the legitimacy his government needs to lead a possible unified

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