says it has lost communication with its contacts at al—shifa hospital, gaza's largest. the israeli army denies accusations of strikes on al—shifa, although they have admitted to fighting in the area. in this video you can see hospitals operating in darkness in the north, as doctors without borders says hospitals have come under relentless bombardment for the past 2a hours. health groups have warned of a deepening aid crisis in gaza. the israeli army denies strikes at gaza's largest hospital, al—shifa, but has acknowledged clashes with hamas fighters in the area. you can see this hospital operating in darkness in the north. a surgeon at al—shifa told the bbc power, water and food have run out into the hospital's intensive care unit had been hit. the idf says it will assist in the evacuation of babies from the paediatric department at the hospital on sunday. meanwhile, israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says his forces have completed the encirclement of gaza city, an acknowledgement they were fighting on the outskirts of al—shifa hospital. israel has accused hamas of operating tunnels underneath the hospital, something hamas denies. for more on all this, i spoke with our diplomatic correspondent paul adams, who is injerusalem. thanks forjoining us. these reports coming out of gaza paint a grim picture of the humanitarian situation there. what more can you tell us about how hospitals in gaza are coping? well, with great difficulty. they are all pretty much surrounded in gaza city, because the israelis argue these are places where hamas fighters have based themselves, and consequently there have been intense battles going on around us hospitals. the israelis say they are not targeting hospitals per se, and they are trying to get the civilian populations that are clustered around them to try to leave, and also starting to think about evacuating the hospitals themselves, so that israel can concentrate on dealing with hamas. there is a small development on that front this evening. the israelis said tomorrow they are going to evacuate babies from the shifa hospital to a safer location. we do not know the details, we have not had confirmation from the palestinian side, it is very difficult to get through to any of these hospitals at the moment. that does suggest that the israelis recognise as they are camped out on the perimeter of some of these hospitals, the situation is becoming untenable inside and they need to address the very real humanitarian needs of the patients inside those hospitals before there is any prospect of dealing with hamas and any infrastructure they may or may not have inside. what about the progress of israel's military operations themselves? what is the latest you are hearing? it sounds like everything is being centred on northern gaza? it absolutely is, that is the absolute focus of israel's military effort. there are still airstrikes elsewhere, in the southern part of the gaza strip. the israelis say any time we see a hamas target, we will go after them. what they want to do is deal with gaza city and the surrounding area first. that is a major undertaking. it is a very sizeable urban area, quite apart from the issue of hospitals and schools, where civilians are still camped out, fewer now than before, but there are still many civilians there. there is also the business of then taking on hamas in their own backyard, in their own backstreets, an organisation that according to the israelis has a network of tunnels and bunkers right under the city they can operate from. i think there is every expectation that the battle for gaza city could take quite some time yet. we are about five weeks in now to this conflict, international calls for a ceasefire seems to be growing. we have seen those mass protests on the streets of london, meetings with arab leaders as well, the president of france calling for a ceasefire as well. are these calls resonating where you are at all in israel? not yet, no. the israeli government argues it has a very serious undertaking that it is pursuing. the destruction of hamas, both as a military and political force. the eradication of hamas from the gaza strip. that is something the israeli government has never tried before and clearly still has some way to go. i think everybody knows that at some point the key players in this, and by that i mean washington, will think, look, enough is enough. this dreadful mounting death toll, in excess of 11,000 people who have been killed now, at some point washington is going to say to israel, you have done enough, you have destroyed enough of hamas, the cost in lives and the sheer destruction of the infrastructure of the gaza strip is too great now. we need to stop this. but i think we're quite way from that stop i think the israelis believe, and i think they still have american backing for a desire to continue to degrade and destroy hamas for some time to come. but i think we're quite way from that stop i think the israelis believe, and i think they still have american backing for a desire to continue to degrade and destroy hamas for some time to come. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams reporting from jerusalem. thank you so much. according to doctors without borders, many hospital patients cannot walk and are unable to evacuate. a surgeon at al—shifa said, "those staying at the hospital already decided they are dead". lucy williamson sent this report from jerusalem, and a warning, there are scenes you may find upsetting. gaza's main hospital is now the eye of this military storm. staff here say they've been under constant fire for the past 2a hours. the dead trapped here, along with the living. we would like to bury their bodies. we tried yesterday to make a big grave in shifa hospital, mass grave, but the israelis attacked all the caterpillar who arrived to shifa hospital. we don't want to have any outbreaks due to these dead bodies who are outside the main refrigerator. 0ne doctor there said patients were so frightened, some left with serious injuries untreated. the hospital lost power yesterday. doctors without borders has accused the israeli military of signing the death warrant of civilians trapped in al—shifa. elsewhere, doctors report carrying out surgery by the light of mobile phones. they say the lack of electricity is threatening the lives of newborn babies and those in intensive care. some, they say, have already died. israel says its ground offensive has so far captured ii hamas bases. israel says its enemy hides behind hospitals like al—shifa, but that it's not targeting the complex or civilians. tonight, israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said the operation was achieving its objectives. translation: idf forces have completed the encirclement of gaza city. they are operating in the heart of the city, they are on the outskirts of shifa hospital. they eliminated thousands of terrorists, including senior commanders and many murderers who were among those who lead this terrible massacre on the accursed saturday, october 7th. a few miles from gaza, soldiers reconnect with parents who themselves fought here in similar wars. some of the soldiers gathering for a weekend break here lost friends and comrades in the hamas attack. they are now under growing pressure from israel's public and politicians to finish their mission. israel's leaders are facing questions over the plan for gaza once the military operation ends. this family has sent three generations to fight in israel's army. the shabbat family picnic snatched on the roadside has become a tradition of its own. the father, yaron, said israelis didn't want to fight but that they and their neighbours were like fire and water. the talk here in israel is often a call for peace backlit by the sounds of war. lucy williamson, bbc news, southern israel. for more on the situation on the ground, we spoke to a spokesperson for the international federations of the red cross and red crescent societies. , ., ., societies. the situation i would say _ societies. the situation i would say is _ societies. the situation i would say is desperate, | societies. the situation i - would say is desperate, frankly speaking. we have been saying this in the last week that without proper humanitarian aid, without a safe space where to operate, without fuel for the hospital and without safety for civilians and healthcare for civilians and healthca re workers, for civilians and healthcare workers, this would be the result. and that is exactly what is happening in these hours. we have a system that has collapsed, you are saying. there are mainly hospitals north of gaza are that are not working anymore or barely working anymore or barely working and i can tell you that in a palestinian hospital, electricity is almost running out and they are using just a bit of fuel for infants and those in intensive care. and of course this is not a fully functioning hospital and will not last for long so the situation is catastrophic. there have been clashes outside of hospitals in northern gaza. in terms of safety of patients and healthcare workers, how safe are they?— safe are they? they are not. the reality — safe are they? they are not. the reality is _ safe are they? they are not. the reality is there - safe are they? they are not. the reality is there is - safe are they? they are not. the reality is there is no - safe are they? they are not. | the reality is there is no safe place in gaza. this is unfortunately not new in the last week and in particular in these days on the north of gaza even worse. what we are seeing is really heavy shelling and then heavy fighting on the hospitals and i want to remind everyone that hospitals must be protected at every time and what we are seeing now, and what we are seeing now, and what our palestinian colleagues are telling us from cars and cities is there is no way in or no way out. and this is the sixth day in the row where we have been cut off from everything and everyone and again without humanitarian aid or supplies or without fuel they will not be able to carry on like this. the un security council has been asked to adopt a binding resolution to stop the aggression. as the war rages on, leaders from arab and muslim countries gathered for a summit, showing a united response to the conflict. the final statement at riyadh rejected israeli claims it is acting in "self defence" and demanded the un security council adopted a decisive and binding resolution to hold israel's "aggression". the irani president also called on islamic governments to designate israel's military a terrorist organisation. 0ur security correspondent, frank gardner, was at that summit and i spoke to him earlier. frank, we appreciate you being here. first of all, what more can you tell us about what came out of this emergency summit? this summit was to be honest aimed not so much at israel but aimed at america, because the us is of course israel's biggest backer, and i don't think anybody at this conference was under any illusions that israel would necessarily be listening but they know that the white house and the state department are. they were trying very hard to send a unified message. that is not easy when you have 57 nations, leaders, prime ministers, sheikhs and sultans from right across the arab and islamic word, so they had to kind of go with the lowest common denominator of what they could agree on. that was this, that they want an immediate ceasefire, notjust a humanitarian pause, but an immediate ceasefire in gaza. they want the war to end. they condemned israel but they also reserved quite a lot of condemnation for the west generally, accusing it of double standards, of hypocrisy. saying, look, you, the west condemned russia for the slaughter of civilians in ukraine but you have been relatively muted when it comes to the much bigger slaughter in terms of numbers of those killed in gaza. but you know, the really interesting thing about summits like this is what people tell you on the sidelines. clearly beneath the surface there were disagreements. some countries wanted to push for a much harder line, they wanted to push for practical measures. countries like iran and syria and algeria. there was talk of trying to push the us bases out of the middle east. that did not go anywhere. there was talk about denying overflights to israel. that did not go anywhere. there was talk about breaking off the abraham accords brokered by the trump administration that saw the uae and bahrain and morocco make peace with israel. again, that was rejected. so, the hardliners didn't really get the punitive measures that they wanted. but they did get to send a strong message that they are saying it is unacceptable what, in their eyes, israel is doing in gaza. and as you said, this was a unified message, the head of the arab league said he hoped that the west would listen to that message. how likely is that? i think it will have some impact. certainly with the state department, which will be acutely aware that israel's actions in gaza have gone far further than they expected and are dragging down america's name to some extent, in this part of the world. one of the ministers — and i won't say which one it is because he spoke to me in confidence or at least without attribution — but let's just say it was from a western ally, said, look, we are acutely aware that with the rising death toll and all the incredible suffering that is going on in the gaza strip amongst palestinians and to a lesser extent, in the west bank, there is a fear of radicalization, that their youth in this part of the world — there's a very young population in this part of the world — that they are becoming increasingly radicalised and starting to listen to extremist voices and that, of course, is the stepping stone to terrorism which can, as we know, reach right into the united states and europe. there was no mention in this joint statement of hamas or of the attacks by hamas on october 7. why do you think that is? yeah, that is one thing that was conspicuously absent in this. there are countries represented here at the summit who don't like hamas, countries like the united arab emirates, which did condemn hamas's murderous raid into israel on the 7th of october. the egyptians don't like them. plenty of countries see hamas as a kind of revolutionary threat and particularly as it is backed by iran, which is not particularly popular on this side of the gulf. but that said, because of the very high death toll in gaza, because of the appalling scenes that are playing out in arab living rooms right across this region, leaders thought better of actually voicing any criticism of it, but it was very noticeable that it was very absent, any talk of hamas having brought this upon the people of gaza. i mean, i think hamas was surprised at how successful their awful raid was, that it killed and kidnapped as many people as it did. i think they expected to meet a lot more resistance from the israel defense force than they did. they couldn't believe how easy it was to cross through that barrier and carry out the murders that they did. the bbc�*s security correspondent frank gardner joining us from riyadh in saudi arabia. thank you so much. you're welcome. concerns are growing that the conflict could expand along israel's northern border going into lebanon onz territory of hezbollah. has blood's chief said his group produce new kinds of weapons and struck new targets in israel in recent days. his speech on saturday... cautioning haswell not to intensify its effect. he warned israel can do in beirut what it has done in gaza. —— hezbollah in also prepared on the northern front and are working there very strongly from the air and on the ground. and i worn hezbollah, do not make that mistake and start a war, because it will be the mistake of your lives. the moment you start a war, this will decide on the destiny of levin on, for working and fighting on additionalfronts working and fighting on additional fronts against terror, against the proxy, against its terrorists in syria, the red sea, levin on, where ever needed. meanwhile in the uk, police estimate 3000 protesters march through central london calling for a ceasefire in gaza. food at suspected three individuals of committing anti—semitic hate crimes during protest document 0verall crimes during protest document overall 126 people crimes during protest document 0verall126 people were arrested. the vast majority were counter protested from right groups who police lamp for violence in which nine officers were injured. the home editor mark easton has more. despite, or perhaps because, government ministers were encouraging people to stay away, this afternoon's pro—palestinian march brought more than 300,000 people onto the streets of central london — easily the largest protest since the current israel—gaza conflict began. it's 11:00. "it's11," says one demonstrator, as groups marked the armistice with a two—minute silence. quite a number of protesters were wearing poppies. it's an important day to remember those who died, but amongst them were 10,000 palestinians whojoined the british army. the atmosphere as the rally began was relaxed and good—natured, but from early in the day, police have been concerned about what they categorised as a right—wing counter protest. there were scuffles a short distance from the cenotaph. 300,000 to a00,000, maybe more. the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, paid a visit to his command team as riot squads in the field worked to keep the two protest groups apart. here in the met police's operations centre, officers are monitoring every aspect of the protest and they've got fixed cameras. and also, they've got evidence gatherers, officers on the ground, who are taking pictures they can beam back live from the scene so the commanders here can decide where to deploy and when to arrest. we watched as the senior commanders instructed their teams in the field to arrest some of the counter—protesters. from what we can see, they came intent on confrontation, intent on violence and intent on causing trouble. we've made a number of arrests within the counter protests, including for possession of a knife, possession of a baton, possession of class a drugs and assault on an emergency worker. siren wails as police were rounding up the far right demonstrators, the mayor of london, sadiq khan, claimed the home secretary suella braverman�*s criticism of the met had emboldened the far right groups. the sense of disorder we witnessed at the far—right of the senator harper a direct result of the home secretary �*s word. the police's drop has been much harder. —— the police'sjob police have arrested a much smaller number of pro—palestinian demonstrators for a range of offences, including public order and hate crimes. the housing secretary, michael gove, had to be bundled out of victoria station in a police van after being surrounded by pro—palestinian protesters. 0thers let off fireworks, but scotland yard said today's operation had been a success, protecting people's right to protest and the sanctity of armistice day. mark easton, bbc news, central london. turning now to some of the other stories making headway, headlines and right here in washington the deadline to avoid a government shutdown is less than one—week away. a speaker mikejohnson unveiled a speaker mike johnson unveiled a 2—step speaker mikejohnson unveiled a 2—step fan that would see funding for some federal call agencies expiring at different times but avoids the spending some republicans have been pushing. make the plan is facing criticism from his party's right and with a slim republican majority even a small rebellion from his caucus could sink that proposal. iceland has declared a state of emergency untold thousands of people to leave th