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

Israeli forces close in on Gaza City and deadly airstrikes continue

while the Secretary of State travels the region to try and prevent escalation.

Former President Donald Trump testifies in the New York fraud trial that could

upend his family business. And one of the first formerly incarcerated state

legislators reflects on her life's unlikely path, including breaking down barriers for people like her.

I'm normalizing it for other people who don't have to live in shame anymore about their past

and can say, yes, I did those things and I've changed. Welcome to the news hour. A staggering milestone today in Gaza. The Hamas-run

Gaza Health Ministry says 10,000 Gazans, including 4,000 children, have been

killed since the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on October 7th.

Israel says its ground operation has now cut off Gaza City in the north from the rest of the Gaza Strip.

And Secretary of State Tony Blinking left the region today after rare public disagreements with America's closest Arab allies.

He described his efforts to secure a humanitarian pause and the release of hostages

as a quote, work in progress.

Nick Schifran starts our coverage with another day of funerals in Gaza. Some of the

images in this report are disturbing.

The body of a child, the body whose burden falls on four adult men. Gazans say one month of

war has spared no one. The Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health's number, 10,000, is unprecedented, even for a small

strip of land that suffered six wars in 15 years. The latest victims today,

Israel said it was targeting a Hamas commander.

It was night.

I was just sitting there when the bombing happened.

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