News Wrap: Israel continues bombarding Gaza, 3 first responders fatally shot in Minnesota

John Yang:

Good evening. I'm John Yang, as Israel's bombardment of Gaza goes on unabated. The World Health Organization says the main hospital in southern Gaza is no longer functional after an Israeli raid last week, and a post on X the head of the W.H.O. said 200 patients who remain in Nasser hospital in Khan Youunis. The Hamas Ron Gaza health ministry says only 25 medical staff remain.

Israel says last week's raid was to look for the remains of hostages that they arrested more than 100 who they say are suspected militants. Today's airstrikes killed at least 18 people 11 of them in Rafah Han Eunice including children.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed aside international concerns about a planned ground assault on Rafah saying that those in harm's way would be evacuated. But many of the 1 million or so Gazans who've taken refuge and Rafah say there's no place left to go.

Mhedi Chbeir, Gaza Resident (through translator):

We will not go out of Rafah. We will die in our country here. Where should we go? We have nowhere our homes in Khan Younis are gone. Everything we own from money to possessions are gone. Any sustenance we got is gone.

John Yang:

Tomorrow the International Court of Justice opens hearings on the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank both captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Two police officers and a paramedic are dead after an early morning shooting in Burnsville, Minnesota. It's a well to do suburb of Minneapolis. The Minnesota Police Association says the suspect is also dead. The association said seven children are inside the home and that the suspect negotiated with police for four hours before SWAT officers entered.

City officials identified the victims as officers Paul Elmstrand and Matthew Ruge and paramedic Finseth. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said they were responding to a call about a family in danger and that other officers were also injured.

A senior Pakistani official has admitted that he helped rig election results in his city that deepens the political turmoil surrounding the tumultuous and indecisive national elections earlier this month. This weekend thousands of supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan took to the streets.

The official's admission seems to give weight to accusations that the military tampered with the vote count. The official resigned and the election commission said it would investigate.

And at the NBA All Star Weekend in Indianapolis, Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry narrowly New York Liberty's Sabrina Ionescu in the first ever NBA-WNBA three point contest.

Ionescu shot from the men's three point line which is about 12 to 18 inches beyond the WNBA line. Curry had to rally a bit at the end to edge Ionescu by what else three points. The real winners though are the charities the players chose to get $25,000 each.

Still to come on PBS News Weekend. Junk fees. Those charges millions of Americans are hit with every year and the often hidden history of the Black Panther Party.