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

Fighting intensifies around Gaza City as civilians continue to bear the brunt of heavy

bombardment one month after the Hamas attacks. The Supreme Court hears a

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When people are really questioning what's the return of an investment in higher ed. Welcome to the news hour. Today marks one month since the Hamas terror attacks of

October 7th. In Israel there were vigils of remembrance and in Gaza the

fighting and killing continues.

Late today President Biden said he had asked Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

for a pause in fighting.

The Israeli army has now encircled Gaza city in its pursuit of Hamas as tens of thousands of terrified civilians stream toward southern Gaza, a fraught and dangerous path amid ongoing Israeli bombardment.

Once again this evening, Lela Molana Allen

begins our coverage.

Along the southbound roads of the Gaza Strip,

Palestinians flee from the north in droves,

some waving white flags, many of them children,

making the long walk without shoes. In the distance smoke rises over the city Nassim left

behind, his home under siege. We are heading south as they told us to do. We are walking and don't know where we will go.

To schools, to sleep on the streets, to sleep at people's places, only God knows.

The exodus in Gaza follows new evacuation orders from Israel.

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