Tonight on PBS News Weekend, Israel declares war in Hamas as it humbles Gaza in retaliation

and the death toll mounts on both sides.

Everything that Hamas does makes their situation their plight even worse.

They bring nothing but death and destruction not only to Israelis, but to Palestinians.

And we get two perspectives on this weekend's violence and what it means for the Middle East.

Then the global fentanyl trade and the recent U.S. crackdown on Chinese companies producing

and trafficking the illicit drug.

Good evening.

I'm John Yang.

Tonight, Israel is a nation at war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowed to destroy the ability of Hamas and Islamic

jihad to govern and carry out military attacks.

An effort he warns will be long and difficult.

The death toll continues to climb.

At this hour, there are more than 700 Israelis dead on the Palestinian side.

More than 400 are reported dead.

And each side reports more than 2,000 wounded.

Recently today, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the aircraft carrier USS Gerald

Ford to the Eastern Mediterranean as a show of force in support of Israel.

The skyline of Gaza shrouded in smoke as Israeli strikes pummel residential buildings.

Moss, the few Israeli military, said housed Hamas command centers and tunnels long suspected

to be smuggling routes for weapons.

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