Tonight Israel launching strikes in Raffa after Hamas said it is accepted a ceasefire

proposal images of celebrations in Gaza following that announcement from

Hamas that it agreed to terms presented by Egypt and Qatar.

But Israel saying there's no deal yet, and going ahead with strikes in Rafa, the southern

Gaza city where it told nearly 100,000 people to evacuate the uncertainty tonight.

Also this evening Donald Trump found him contempt again at his hush money trial for

violating his partial gag order, the new threat from the judge to send him to jail.

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after the flooding in Texas that left a four-year-old boy dead.

The U.S. soldier detained in Russia the crime he's accused of committing.

Columbia University making a major announcement about its main graduation ceremony

after weeks of protests and dramatic arrests.

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stopped the final countdown after years of delays tonight Boeing is set to launch

its first crude flight of its starliner capsule and a historic battleship

like you've never seen before visitors flocking for a rare glimpse as it gets a

makeover. This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome.

The news traveled fast in Gaza tonight where celebrations broke out afterward

began to spread that Hamas had accepted a deal to end hostilities in Gaza, but hopes

of a pause in the fighting were just as quickly shattered when Israel declared

the deal Hamas was embracing was far from Israel's essential demands and so

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