
News Wrap: Israel says it killed longtime Hamas spokesperson
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News Wrap: Israel says Hamas spokesperson killed as it expands Gaza offensive
In our news wrap Sunday, Israeli forces pounded the area around Gaza City as they ramp up their offensive against Hamas, 60,000 people in Ukraine lost electricity after Russia struck power facilities across the country, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was injured in a car crash and the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis held its first Sunday Mass since Wednesday’s deadly shooting.
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News Wrap: Israel says it killed longtime Hamas spokesperson
Clip: 8/31/2025 | 3m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
In our news wrap Sunday, Israeli forces pounded the area around Gaza City as they ramp up their offensive against Hamas, 60,000 people in Ukraine lost electricity after Russia struck power facilities across the country, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was injured in a car crash and the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis held its first Sunday Mass since Wednesday’s deadly shooting.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAnd 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 morg, 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's 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 in infrastructure as they intensify their air strikes.
Ukrainian President Wimir Zalinsky 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 postconlict security guarantees.
European Commission President Ursula Vanderline told the Financial Times it would be a multinational force.
She said President Trump has agreed to provide technological and intelligence support.
EU and US security guarantees are one of the conditions Zalinsky 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 Xarin was at the church during the Wednesday attack.
Been a tremendous outpouring of love.
It's kind of the 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.
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 fame bayou tapestry before it goes on loan to the British Museum in London.
The 76yard 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 chatbots may be affecting mental health and the head of the World Food Program on the devastating humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
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