Good evening. I'm Amman Navas. Jeff Bennett is on assignment. On the news hour tonight,

Israel seizes control of a Gaza border crossing as a ceasefire and hostage deal hangs in the balance.

Adult film star Stormy Daniels takes the stand in the hush money trial of former President

Donald Trump, and basketball star Brittany Griner talks about

her release from Russian prison and readjusting to life back in the United States.

Once I'm on the soil and we pulled up to that hangar and I saw my wife and I saw that

US flag hanging in a hangar, then I finally could relax. Welcome to the news hour. Delegations from Israel and Hamas returned to Cairo today

to resume fraught negotiations over a potential ceasefire and hostage deal.

In the meantime Israeli tanks and troops seized the Raffa border crossing with Egypt,

delaying aid shipments as 1.2 million Palestinians shelter in the city.

Following it all is our Nick Schffron reporting tonight from Jacksonville,

North Carolina. So Nick let's begin in Rafa. Tell us what kind of operation

Israel has launched there and why. Well, as you just said, Israel sees the border crossing that separates Gaza from Egypt.

Israel called it a, quote, precise operation to tackle some of the smuggling that goes from Egypt into

Gaza as well as the Hamas militants who operate there. This is actually the first time that

Israeli troops have controlled that border crossing since 2005

when Israel withdrew settlers and soldiers from Gaza back then.

And in this war, Israel has long argued that it needs to enter nearby Rafa City and

today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that operation was next.

Seizing the passage in Rafa today is a very important step, an important step on the way to

destroying the remaining military capabilities of Hamas, including the elimination

of the four terrorist battalions in Raffa, and an important

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