Welcome to the news hour. Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel tonight

hoping to revive talks for a hostage deal and ceasefire with Hamas. But Cairo

also warned against an Israeli assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafa along

the border with Egypt.

Much of Gaza has already been reduced to a wasteland, with UN officials estimating 37 million tons of debris to be removed.

They said today that the cleanup operation will be a mammoth job.

With 100 trucks, we're talking about 14 years of work with 100 trucks.

So that's based on that figure, 14 years to remove with approximately 750,000 work days,

person work days, person work days to remove the debris.

So significant numbers when it comes to debris.

The UN said roughly 65% of the buildings destroyed in Gaza have been residential ones.

The US military today announced a new weapons package to re-arm Ukraine's air defenses.

It includes more Patriot missiles,

but not the additional Patriot batteries

that Ukraine had wanted.

Still, in Washington, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

said he believes this package, along with other weapons, will meet

Ukraine's needs.

They need other types of systems and interceptors as well.

And so I would caution us all in terms of making Patriot the silver bullet.

I would say that it's going to be the integrated era in missile defense, as we've said so many times before that really turns a tie.

The new weapons package will cost some $6 billion.

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