Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amman Nevaz. On the news hour tonight,

the European Union's top diplomat on global efforts to get more aid into Gaza and to support Ukraine.

A legal settlement allows Florida teachers and students to talk about LGBTQ plus issues, but some restrictions remain.

And the pregnancy struggles of both Israeli survivors of October 7th

and Khazins under siege.

I'm so exhausted.

I can't even get up to play a mother's role in my baby's life.

I can't walk or get up to feed him or hold him. Welcome to the news hour. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is taking on

Israel's far-right government over the war in Gaza. The highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the United States delivered a scathing 40-minute

speech today.

He charged that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his way in the military drive to crush Hamas.

Schumer said the Netanyahu and his government are an obstacle to peace

and that Israel needs new elections.

The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7th.

The world has changed radically since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right now by a

governing vision that is stuck in the past.

Netanyahu's political party shot back that Israel is quote not a banana republic and

that its war policy has wide public support.

Meanwhile in Gaza Palestinian officials said an aid warehouse was hit by an Israeli

airstrike that killed eight people. The Israeli said one was a Hamas

commander. The Palestinian Authority is getting a new Prime Minister, but the choice may not satisfy US calls for reforms

leading to a Palestinian state.

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