Good evening, I'm Amna Nawaz.

And I'm Jeff Bennett.

On the news hour tonight, Israel pounds Gaza with air strikes and orders a complete

siege of the Palestinian enclave and retaliation for the unprecedented terror attacks by Hamas.

U.S. support for Israel is complicated by turmoil in the House of Representatives where

pressure grows on Republicans to elect a new speaker.

And Maui takes stock of the heritage lost in the devastating wildfires as communities

reopened and indigenous Hawaiians face an uncertain future.

We see sort of disaster after disaster, whether it's fire or flooding or intense drought

in the West, that these are going to continue to be issues with indigenous communities.

Welcome to the news hour.

A third day of brutal fighting between Israelis and Palestinians centered on Gaza today, and

it continues tonight.

Israel has hammered the region with air strikes and artillery in retribution for Saturday's

bloody terror attack by Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the offensive has only begun, and that

the ferocity of Israel's reprisals on Hamas will, quote, reverberate with them for generations.

An Israel-ground invasion of Gaza is widely expected to start in the coming hours and days.

And already, there are staggering death tolls.

Over 900 Israelis dead, thousands more wounded, while in Gaza, nearly 700 Palestinians have

been killed.

Among the dead so far, according to President Biden, are 11 Americans.

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