Good evening. I'm Amman Avaevas. And I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on the US to stand with Israel in a speech to Congress that many

Democrats boycott it. President Biden addresses the nation for the first time

since dropping out of the presidential race. And as the country works to address its youth mental health crisis,

another troubling trend emerges.

More young black Americans are attempting to take their own lives.

One of the primary reasons they've pointed to

is feeling hopeless about the future.

Hopelessness on an individual level,

but also hopelessness on a structural level. Welcome to the news hour.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the war in Gaza today in a speech

to a joint meeting of Congress amid protests and partisan politics that led dozens of

Democrats to boycott the speech.

Netanyahu disparaged protesters who clashed with police outside the U.S. Capitol and blamed Hamas for the tens of thousands of

Palestinians killed in Israel's nine-month war in Gaza since the October 7th

terrorist attack. Nick Schifrin reports. His Excellency, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

No other foreign leader has delivered as many congressional addresses or received as much state of the union style applause, but no other

invited foreign leader has also driven such division. Outside Congress today

protesters burned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy.

And spray-painted Hamas is coming.

At one point, police pepper-sprayed demonstrators after they became violent.

Dozens of Democrats boycotted and some attending did not

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