Good evening. I'm on the Navas and I'm Jeff Bennett on the news hour tonight.

Fighting rages around hospitals in Gaza as civilians shoulder the burden of war and

negotiations for the release of hostages continued.

Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson faces his first major challenge to keep the government open as a

shutdown deadline looms. And we speak exclusively with Treasury Secretary

Janet Yellen about countering China's global influence ahead of a meeting between President's

Biden and she.

We have a responsibility to the entire world to work together to address news hour. A race against time tonight in Northern Gaza as just one hospital remains operational.

Vulnerable and critical patients are still being treated at several hospitals, locations

that the U.S. today said Hamas is using for military purposes.

American official said today that U.S. intelligence shows that Hamas is indeed using patients

in those hospitals as human shields, but that the civilians within them must be protected.

The President also said he believes a deal will be struck to free hostages held in Gaza,

including Americans, saying, hang in, we're coming.

Lala Malana Allen is in Tel Aviv tonight.

A moment of lightness amid the horror,

as children play in Gaza's first winter rains.

But for their parents like Pfizer, the cold season brings a whole host of new worries

in displacement and deprivation. Winter is a nightmare.

In the past, I used to wish for the winter to arrive,

but right now I pray every day for it not to rain that we are living in tents nothing that protects us

When the rain falls we will drown as Garzans continue to flee south trying to escape Israel's ground invasion in the north.

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