Welcome to the NewsHour. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is flying to Doha tonight to meet with

Qatar's leaders following unprecedented Israeli strikes targeting Hamas leaders last week. Earlier

today, Rubio met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, and as

Nick Schiffrin reports, the two presented a unified front.

In Jerusalem, a show of solidarity and support to end the war in Gaza using the military,

not diplomacy. I think we have to be prepared for the fact that savage, you know,

terrorists don't normally agree to things like that.

But we'll continue to pursue that route.

It's the ideal outcome.

But it may require ultimately a concise military operation to eliminate them.

The Israeli military today again targeted Gaza City high rises that it calls Hamas terrorist

infrastructure and confirmed it launched

the formal effort to capture Gaza's most populated city.

The new offensive is uprooting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were already displaced.

Yesterday, Basel al-Za-Anin fled Israeli bombings. Today he's been on the road

for 12 hours with his daughter.

All night, she screams on my lap because she is terrified. Open the road for us. Let us have

our camps. Give us food or water. Anything. Empathize for these children who have been thrown

to the streets.

The only way to avoid an urban battle in Gaza City is a complete Hamas surrender. Prime Minister

Netanyahu said today.

If they surrender, lay down their arms, then you can do the rest without battle. And at any

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