Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. And I'm Amna Nawaz. On the news hour tonight, President Trump scolds allies for not helping protect oil tankers from Iran and talks to the news hour in a phone call about the war and oil prices.

Ordinary Iranians share audio messages about life in the midst of the ongoing war.

Being bombed is a truly terrifying sound.

No matter how much you feel you're getting used to it, every time you hear it, it haunts you.

And an increase in anti-Islamic rhetoric from Republican politicians raises concerns about religious hatred and potential violence.

There is certainly, I think, a decision among some that this rhetoric is helpful.

It gives them viral moments. It helps them raise money.

Welcome to the News Hour. The war with Iran has entered its third week. Shipping traffic through the critical strait of Hormuz remains

effectively shut off, and the shockwave to the global supply chain of oil are being felt here

at home with gas prices on the rise. President Trump himself is demanding help from U.S.

allies to secure the strait. Meantime, Israel has announced yet another front in the war, a ground operation in Lebanon.

Nick Schifrin starts us off.

In southern Beirut today, an Israeli bombardment. By day in the capital's southern suburbs,

from where Hezbollah operates, the buildings have been obliterated.

This block left smoldering and shattered.

And today, for the first time since the war with Iran started, Israel launched what it called

limited, targeted ground operations in Lebanon south.

The new offensive has already emptied southern cities and sparked the evacuation of more

than one million people who will not be allowed to return to their homes anytime soon.

Defense Minister Israel Katz warned today.

Prime Minister Netanyahu and I have instructed the IDF to act and destroy the terror infrastructure

near the border in Lebanon, just as it was done against Hamas in Gaza.

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