Good evening, I'm Amna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett.

On the news hour tonight, Israeli air strikes Hammer Gaza, including in evacuation areas,

as the death toll rises, and Hamas continues to hold its hostages.

Chaos in the House Republicans again fail to agree on a permanent speaker and reject

an effort to empower an interim caretaker.

And amid a nationwide push for police reform, Native people who are targeted by law enforcement

and disproportionate numbers demand that their voices are also heard.

Native people are the most adversely affected, discriminated against, and abused by the Minneapolis

Police Department.

Yet there hasn't been one listening session here in this community.

Welcome to the news hour.

The bombardment of Gaza continues tonight, as Israel's defense minister told his forces

to prepare for a ground invasion of the coastal region home to more than two million Palestinians.

Since the October 7th, Hamas terror attacks in Israel, the death tolls continue to mount.

There are now more than 5,000 people dead, reportedly some 3,800 Palestinians, according

to Palestinian officials, and more than 1,400 Israelis, according to Israeli officials.

And the fallout continues from Tuesday's blast at a hospital in Northern Gaza that U.S.

sources say came from a misfired Gaza rocket, with the region roiling and attacks on U.S.

troops in both Iraq and Syria.

A U.S. intelligence assessment sent to Congress today said the loss of life in the explosion

on Tuesday was on the, quote, low end of 100 to 300 people, not the 500 initially claimed

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