News Wrap: Israel says Hamas spokesperson killed as it expands Gaza offensive

John Yang:

And in today's other headlines, Israeli forces pounded the area around Gaza City overnight, destroying homes and sending more people fleeing. The area's largest hospital said 29 bodies were brought to its morgue, including 10 people who were seeking aid.

The Israeli military has stopped pausing fighting to allow food deliveries as they ramp up their offensive against Hamas. Israel also said that a targeted operation had killed a longtime spokesman for Hamas military wing.

In Ukraine, 60,000 people are without electricity after Russia struck power facilities across the country. In recent weeks both sides have increasingly targeted energy and fuel infrastructure as they intensify their airstrikes. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to retaliate with strikes deep inside Russia and European leaders are working on plans to send thousands of troops to Ukraine as part of post-conflict security guarantees.

European Commission President Ursula van der Leyen told the Financial Times, it would be a multinational force, she said President Trump has agreed to provide technological and intelligence support. E.U. and U.S. Security guarantees are one of the conditions Zelenskyy has set for any peace agreement.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is recovering in a New Hampshire hospital from serious injuries he suffered in a car crash late Saturday evening. A spokesman said Giuliani fractured a vertebrae and had multiple cuts and bruises. The spokesman said Giuliani's rental car was hit from behind at high speed.

Today was the first Sunday Mass at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis since an attack killed two children and wounded 20 others. Outside, well-wishers left flowers and messages. The Reverend Dennis Zehren was at the church during the Wednesday attack.

Rev. Dennis Zehren, Annunciation Catholic Church:

Been a tremendous outpouring of love. It's kind of the funny mystery that when the darkness is most intense, that's when the light of God shines all the more brightly. And we've been seeing that in so many ways. I have never seen such an outpouring of love.

John Yang:

At the Vatican, Pope Leo prayed for the victims and called for an end to what he termed the pandemic of arms large and small which infects our world.

And crowds have flocked to a museum in northern France this weekend to see the famed Bayeux Tapestry before it goes on loan to the British Museum in London. The 76-yard long masterpiece tells the story of William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066.

Critics in France fear the tapestry, which is actually embroidered, is too fragile to be safely moved such a long distance. It'll be the first time the tapestry has returned to England in nearly 1,000 years.

Still to come on PBS News Weekend, how AI chapter may be affecting mental health and the head of the World Food Programme on the devastating humanitarian crisis in Sudan.