News Wrap: Israel says it recently killed 2,000 Palestinian gunmen

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• Geoff Bennett:

  In the day's other headlines: The Israeli military announced it has killed more than 2,000 Palestinian gunmen in days of heavy fighting around Khan Yunis in Southern Gaza.

  Israeli forces also launched a new assault on Gaza City after pulling back in recent weeks. At the same time, Hamas fired a new volley of rockets toward Israeli cities. But the Israeli defense minister told troops that the offensive is working.

• Yoav Gallant, Israeli Defense Minister (through interpreter):

  Naturally, terrorists will remain. We will fight in terror hot spots and it will take months. On the other hand, they don't have supplies. They don't have ammunition. They don't have reinforcements. We have already eliminated at least a quarter of Hamas' terrorists and there's a similar number wounded.

• Geoff Bennett:

  Also today, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry reported more than 26,600 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza to date. It does not differentiate between civilians and militants.

  There's a new disclosure about the Alaska Airlines plane that lost a door panel earlier this month. The Wall Street Journal and others report that Boeing increasingly believes workers may have left off some bolts during production. The panel blew off of the 737 MAX 9 jet as it was flying roughly three miles above Portland, Oregon. Most of the MAX 9s are still being inspected.

  The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled today that access to abortion is a fundamental right under the state's constitution. And it said a state ban on Medicaid paying for abortions appears to be unconstitutional. But it sent the case back to a lower court for a definitive ruling.

  Meantime, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will hear arguments on limiting access to the abortion drug mifepristone on March 26.

  A Hong Kong court has ordered Chinese real estate giant Evergrande to liquidate after failing to restructure $300 billion in debt. It's the most heavily indebted of dozens of Chinese developers that buckled under government pressure to rein in red ink. Traders around the world said they're watching for possible ripple effects in the global economy.

• Tim Oechsner, Steubing AG Security Bank (through interpreter):

  There is bad news coming out of China, and that obviously rings alarm bells with capital markets around the world. In theory, the impact could be huge, because the company's debt load is very, very large and because it has a worldwide network.

• Geoff Bennett:

  Evergrande's collapse could also put new pressure on China's already slowing economy.

  The top court for international sports disqualified Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva today from the 2022 Beijing Olympics. It followed a two-year doping investigation. Valieva had led her team to a gold medal, but her positive test for a banned medication was revealed hours later. Now the Russians will likely be stripped of their win, and the U.S. will get the gold medal instead.

  A Japanese moon lander is back in action for now after it landed wrong side up. The country's first lunar mission made a rough landing on January 20, and its solar panels were unable to catch sunlight. Today, officials said the sun's position has shifted enough to charge the batteries and let the lander analyze rocks and take some pictures.

  On Wall Street, stocks got the week off to a running start. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 224 points to close at 38333. The Nasdaq rose 172 points. The S&P 500 added 37 points.

  And Pulitzer Prize-winning writer N. Scott Momaday has died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was a pioneer of modern Native American literature, and his culture and oral tradition shaped his novels, essays and poetries. His debut novel, "House Made of Dawn," won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction back in 1969. N. Scott Momaday was 89 years old.

  Still to come on the "NewsHour": Tamara Keith and Amy Walter break down the latest political headlines; a psychiatrist advocates for reforming America's approach to gun safety; and an effort to honor the music written by prisoners at Auschwitz.