In the day's other headlines Israeli airstrikes tore through buildings in and around the southern

Gaza city of Khan Yunus killing at least 70 people. Medical staff at Nasr Hospital

called the situation out of control.

The overall death toll in Gaza has now surpassed 39,000 people since the war began.

That's according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.

Those strikes come as Israel ordered a new evacuation for an area near Han Yunus that it had designated a humanitarian zone.

Israel now says that Hamas fighters have embedded there. Many Palestinians expressed anguish

over being uprooted once again.

We do not know where we are walking in God's vast land.

Every day we are displaced.

This is the seventh or eighth time we have been displaced.

While we were sleeping in our homes they started shooting at us bombing from everywhere

Also today Israel announced the death of two Israeli hostages. They've been identified as 76 year old Alex Danzig and Yagev Bushstab, who was 35.

Officials say they were kidnapped from their homes in southern Israel during the October 7th attack.

That comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with

several families of those held in Gaza before departing for Washington. He's due to

meet with President Biden this week and has reportedly requested a meeting with Donald Trump.

Netanyahu will address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.

A gunman in Croatia killed six people and wounded half a dozen others at a nursing home today.

The shooting took place in the town of Daravor in the center of the country.

Officials say the victims were residents of the home, mostly in their 80s and 90s, and included the suspect's mother as well as an employee.

The suspect is in police custody and authorities are trying to determine a motive.

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