Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, European leaders meet with Iran's foreign minister as the war with Israel rages on and mass protests unfold in Tehran.

A brutal heat wave blankets much of the U.S. with some areas seeing temperatures topping 100 degrees.

And we sit down with Carla Hayden, the first female and African American librarian of Congress and who was fired by President Trump.

Free public libraries are part of a civic infrastructure that we need to have a safe democracy.

Welcome to the News Hour.

It's now one full week since Israel launched a punishing campaign of airstrikes against Iran and its nuclear infrastructure.

Iran has responded with its own missile strikes, but to far lesser effect, President Trump today reiterated his desire to negotiate with Iran within a two-week window he set yesterday as the U.S. marshals its forces in support of the Israeli operations.

Today in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, an Iranian missile strike.

The moment captured by an eyewitness, leaving residents terrified.

Local authorities say over a dozen people were injured.

In southern Israel's largest city, Bersheba, building shattered by an Iranian missile that struck at dawn,

leaving a trail of devastation.

Right now we're in the south, another place that was got hit by a missile, six buildings

behind me, got hit.

Now, MD 18 are searching each apartment to see if someone got hurt.

Air raid sirens echoed through Tel Aviv as the exchange of attacks between the I was sitting each apartment to see if someone got hurt.

Air raid sirens echoed through Tel Aviv as the exchange of attacks between the two countries intensified.

Twelve miles south, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inspected damage to the Whitesman Institute of Science and vowed to continue the war.

As long as it takes, that's the answer. As long as it takes, that's the answer.

As long as it takes, because we face an existential danger, a dual existential danger.

In the Iranian capital of Tehran, a burnt Red Crescent ambulance was put on display in a prominent city square.

It was hit by an earlier Israeli attack that killed three paramedics.

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