Good evening, I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navas as away. On the news hour tonight, Israeli

forces close in on Gaza City, as fighting intensifies and calls for humanitarian calls

go unheeded. Tensions flare in Congress with lawmakers divided over aid to Ukraine and

Israel, the fate of Congressman George Santos and Senator Tommy Tuberville's block on military

commotions. And a running club inside a California prison becomes the focus of a new documentary.

I'm an ambassador for lifers, life incarcerated men and formerly incarcerated men and what

I experience and what I go through can help change policies in the way people are being

treated even from the outside or the inside.

Welcome to the news hour. More Americans are leaving Gaza as evacuations pick up speed following

complicated negotiations. Aid deliveries to the more than two million civilians in Gaza are still

trickling in, but the need is far greater. And as Leyla Molana Allen reports, Israel is continuing

its airstrikes and ground campaign in northern Gaza. Israel intensified its ground operation today,

releasing this video. It says shows troops operating deep inside northern Gaza. Israel Defense

Forces Chief of Staff, head of Cihalavi, confirmed soldiers are now engaged in urban warfare.

IDF fighters have been operating in Gaza City for the past few days and circling it from several

directions, deepening the entrance of the IDF into Gaza and deepening our achievements. As Israel

advances, President Biden appeared last night to call for a quote, pause in the fighting to

facilitate aid deliveries after he was interrupted at an event. National Security Council spokesperson

John Kirby clarified today, what we're talking about our temporary, localized pauses in the

fighting to meet a certain goal or goals. As I said, get A in, get people out. And before leaving

again for the Middle East, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken spoke to the enormous civilian

death toll in Gaza. When I see a Palestinian child, a boy, a girl pulled from the rubble of a

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