Good evening I'm John Yang.

Tonight Israeli forces are again fighting Palestinian militants in northern Gaza,

an area the military said it had cleared months ago.

But Israel's earlier operations there left a security vacuum and Hamas has taken advantage of it to

regroup.

In southern Gaza, Israel further expanded operations.

The military describes what it's doing now as targeted and precise, not the all-out

offensive.

It's been promising.

And today it was Memorial Day in Israel, the first official commemoration of fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism since the October 7th

attacks killed about 1100 Israelis, most of them civilians.

In Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry, says 35,000 Palestinians have died since the start of the war.

They don't distinguish between civilians and fighters.

Russia says part of a 10-story apartment building in the border city of Belgrade collapsed under

Ukrainian shelling.

At least eight people were killed and 20 others were hurt.

In the Harkiv region of Northeastern Ukraine, Russia continues to gain ground, forcing thousands more civilians

to flee.

Moscow says Russia has taken four more villages surrounding Arkeve, that makes a total of nine

this weekend.

Ukraine says Russian advances the withdrawal of at least one battalion.

The first person to receive a transplanted genetically modified pig kidney has died

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