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cnn news central is up now. new reporting and new pictures just in as israeli troops raid gaza's largest hospital. the idf calls it a precise and targeted operation against hamas as the search for hostages intensifies. >> an elbow to the kidneys, a challenge to a fistfight and a smurf insult. no, it's not middle school. it's congress. they did manage to do some work, however, passing a major hurdle to avoid ago going a government shutdown. president biden and chinese president xi jinping, face-to-face today, the first time they have talked in a year, and so much has happened since then. what the hopes are will come of this. i'm sarri a sidner this is "cnn news central." >> at this moment, we're waiting to get more information on the israeli operation in and around the al shifa hospital in northern gaza. you can see where it is right there. israeli forces are inside in what the idf is calling a precise and targeted operation against hamas. i can show you a map of the hospital compound here. it's not just one building. it's several buildings. now, israeli tanks and army vehicles are said now to be on the ground. we've seen video of that. there are said to be patients and staff, hundreds still inside the buildings, and in addition to that, thousands of people are sheltering in these different areas you can see right there. doctors say israeli troops are questioning and searching people inside. we have new video from inside the hospital itself where you can see some of the damage said to have taken place after the israeli troops entered. now, the idf has released this video which shows its troops delivering medical supplies, food. they say they're delivering incubators because we have seen pictures of babies in the hospital over the last several days. it's crucial to note that israel and the united states say there's a hamas command center underneath the hospital and uses the people inside the hospital as human shields. now, remember, the geneva conventions say that civilian hospitals are entitled to protection, but they lose that protection, they say, under no circumstances can they be used for non-medical purposes. what does that mean? well, that includes things like sheltering, able-bodied combatants, stores arm and munitions, a shield for military action. that's a situation that's taking place. we're waiting to get visibility on what's happening here. cnn's oren liebermann is tracking all of this from tel aviv. what's the latest. >> reporter: the operation on the ground on the part of the military in al shifa hospital has been going on for 14 or 15 hours. it started early this morning, and we have been tracking it since. israel says they're operating in a very specific part of the hospital, but if you'll show that map once again, you can see the size of the complex, and they haven't been any more precise or specific about where the operation is happening, simply saying it's away from the hundreds of patients who are there, the doctors, the staff and civilians who are seeking shelter there. the patients inside increasingly dire conditions they have been facing over the course of the past several days. several basic in the kneneo intensive care, in an attempt to get the babies evacuated from the hospital but the director of the hospital says they're in grave danger and warns that it may be impossible to evacuate them giving the fighting on the street. with that picture of how dangerous the situation is and how dire the condition is inside, as they have run out of fuel, water, electricity, here's a look at one of those inside the hospital. listen to this. >> we didn't know what's happening. within the hospital. continuous. again, it's a scarey situation. >> what are these sounds, doctor? i'm hearing sounds. >> it's continuous shooting from the tanks. >> reporter: now, the idf says there are no tanks inside the complex of the hospital, though we have certainly seen videos that they're pretty much on every side of the hospital. they say there have been no shootings or fire fights inside the complex of the hospital. we'll check that against the reports we have heard. they say they have evidence that hamas used the hospital itself as they have claimed for a long time now as terror infrastructure, but they haven't released it yet, nor have they given us a description of what that is. just a few moments ago, poppy harlow and phil mattingly asked the idf international spokesperson on what they found and what they released. i want to read a short statement. we understand there is a substantial hamas infrastructure in the area, in the vicinity of the hospital, potentially under the hospital, and it's something we're working on. it will take us time. the fact that he says potentially now raises serious questions about what the idf knew in advance and what they thought they knew. they have long claimed there is hamas infrastructure under the hospital itself, going so far as to release a digital video graphic several days or weeks ago showing hamas tunnels underneath the hospital. if that is a potential, that's a serious question the idf has to answer, as we wait for them to release evidence showing hamas used the hospital. >> they have been talking about the al shifa hospital for years, and specifically since the october 7th terror attacks, israel has made clear that this site is one of the areas they wanted to get into. keep us posted as to what they hear. oren liebermann, thank you. 14 hours into the raid at al shifa hospital, the world health organization has lost touch with the staff insides hospital. the red cross says reports coming from inside are extremely worrying but doctors are continuing their work. some of them after suffering unimaginable losses themselves. you're taking a look of some video. this doctor here, he's been forced to bring both of his sons to the hospital with them after their mother was killed while he was working in the intensive care unit. we also know there are three dozen newborns inside the hospital. egyptian officials are working to get them out. some babies have died this week because of the power outages and lack of medical supplies. cnn's na da beshear is inside. can you give us efforts underway to save patients, including 36 babies, no one can get the image of their head from the nicu? >> reporter: we have been hearing from doctors and medical officials both inside the al shifa hospital and across gaza who have described the situation around the hospital as being extremely challenging and, of course, life threatening when it comes to any proposal, any suggestion of patient, and medical staff as well as other civilians sheltering at the complex to evacuate southwards as per the orders of the idf. as we know there have been calls for evacuations. the israeli military says it has established a safe evacuation, rather allowed for a safe evacuation, from the eastern side of the hospital. but as we know, the hospital has been nearly entire encircled by tanks and fighting on the ground by the idf and hamas as well, with continuous strikes moving closer to the area, in some areas striking the hospital according to doctors on the ground. the idea that hundreds of patients, around 700 according to officials there can be evacuated in a secure matter has raised alarm bells among doctors and international humanitarian groups. we have been hearing from doctors without borders from the world health organization, always concern around the situation outside of the hospital. many have been unable to reach their teams on the ground. we have heard reports of live fire going on around the al shifa hospital. one doctor speaking to cnn in the early hours of the morning saying that some parts of the building had been targeted by life fire. as you can imagine, until there are those clear guarantees of a way, a safe way to evacuate these hundreds of patients. many doctors are reluctant, they say they'll stand beside patients to continue to provide the urgent care. it's not just about the safety and security outside on the military front. of course many of these patients require specialist medical evacuations just like those premature and newborn babies, who require incubators. they require specialist care, when it comes to making the journey from northern to southern gaza. as we have seen, some people have died on the route. many people have traveled injured, pushing relatives in wheelchairs and hospital beds, along the distant to southern gaza. as we know, the situation in southern gaza isn't a guarantee of safety. we have heard from the humanitarian chief describing the situation across the gaza strip as being insecure. we have seen air strikes continuing across southern gaza, and for many patients who are being told that they need to evacuate southwards, for them it feels like there is no hope of finding safety in southern gaza. the hospitals across the gaza strip are overrun, and as we know, only one hospital in northern gaza left operational. >> we are looking at disturbing pictures from tuesday at just how overrun the hospitals actually are. thank you so much for your reporting will out of jerusalem. kate. joining us now for more, foreign policy reporter with axios. the goal of the specific operation at al shifa, we have heard that, and ever since this operation got underway yesterday, what are you now hearing more than 12 hours in? are you getting a better sense of the goal, the mission, the target? >> hi, good morning, kate. yes, again, i think i have a better understanding. i'm not sure what i know is all the details. i'm not sure they are telling us everything they really know about what's going on right now at the hospital. but the senior israeli official told me like an hour ago that the goal of this operation, the raid into the al shifa hospital was not to try and rescue hostages. they were not looking for hostages. they were looking for a, according to this israeli official, they were looking for a tunnel hub in one of the buildings inside the compound of the hospital that according to this israeli official, those tunnels led to different other parts of the gaza strip, and were used by hamas to move weapons, to move operatives. this is what they're working on. >> kind of like a central transportation hub underneath the hospital. because we know one of the main goals is to take out the tunnel system. so that's what they're pointing to, like this is a central point of transport that they believe they're looking for under the hospital? >> yes, again, that's what they claim. we don't have any way to, you know, confirm it other than what the israelis are saying. but, i think it coincides with what we heard yesterday from the white house on the record when john kirby from the national security council said that the u.s. has its own independent intelligence, that hamas is using al shifa hospital as a command and control center, and maybe the two things connect. >> that's what i was going to ask you. timing. there's often not a lot of coincidence in timing when we see things like this, and i wanted to get a sense of if you heard from the administration or from the israeli side of when kirby coming out to say, we have heard him suggest this before, but to say yesterday that intel suggests that hamas has a command center in or under al shifa, that was something. in addition to are you getting the sense those two things are connected? >> so i asked several biden administration officials, and they all denied that kirby said what he said because the u.s. knew that something was going to happen, and it was sort of like putting forward this alibi or s thing. they totally deny that. but what i do hear from both israeli and u.s. officials is that the fact that the u.s. supports the israeli position on hamas using al shifa hospital and by the administration, the white house said this on the record yesterday, no doubt helps israel in justifying its military action there. >> because the other side of this coin, if you will, and i wanted to ask you is do you sense that israeli -- from israeli official sources that they understand what a focal point al shifa has become in terms of global public opinion, and does that impact their decision making? >> i'm not sure. i think we passed that point. i think, you know, they're trying to reach hamas leadership. they think that would help them in reaching hamas leadership. and by the way, if, indeed, they will find under the hospital a hamas command and control center, then i'm sure it will help them to buy more time for their ground operation in gaza because then they will say, see, told you so. if they're not going to find anything, then the israeli military is going to be in a very big problem explaining why it raided the hospital. >> to that point oren liebermann, flagged us, one of the spokespersons for the idf hack, he was on cnn this morning and asked about it. i want to read his wording in responding to this. we understand, he says, there's a substantial hamas infrastructure in the area, in the vicinity of the hospital, potentially under the hospital. it's something we are working on. from your long experience with speaking with the idf and knowing, you know, how they communicate, does that sound like they're kocouching now? does that suggest at all to you that they are concerned the intel they had going in isn't what they're finding while they're in? >> well, i don't know. what i can tell you is that yesterday, last night, another idf spokesperson, peter learner told cnn that one of the reasons for the raid is a rescue of hostages, and this morning we learned that this is not the reason. so i think there's sort of a developing aversion there, but at the end of the day, the proof is in the pudding. if the idf will be able to present today, tomorrow, in the coming days, real evidence that hamas operated under hospital, then i think it will be clear to a lot of people around the world that this raid was justified. if not the israeli government, and the israeli military will be a huge problem, not only about this raid, but about the other stages of this operation. >> great point. always great to see you. thank you for coming in, barack. john. kidney punches, name calling and threats of violence, just as the founding fathers intended, so who has hit whom on capitol hill so far today? a high stakes summit, new reporting on u.s. plans to both confront and calm tensions with china. the house has spoken and it's up to the senate to keep the government open and avoid a shutdown. the house passed a short-term bill yesterday. as this was happening, the strain and stress of it all, it seems, to be showing. and leading to a true boiling point for some on capitol hill. alleged kidney shots, lawmakers cursing and calling each other names in one committee hearing and a senator challenging a witness at another committee hearing to a fight. cnn's lauren fox is on capitol hill with the very latest. lauren, you add all of this up, you wonder what it shows, but as john was asking just before we went to break, the sad statement is, you could ask the question, has anyone hit anybody on capitol hill today, and it's like a sad joke, but it's a real question. >> reporter: yeah, it's a relief so far up here on capitol hill. but, yeah, yesterday was really chaotic, kate, and that's because the day kind of started after the republican congress to discuss the spending bill. tim burchett, who is a republican from tennessee. he talks to the press a lot. he says he was talking to a reporter, and former house speaker kevin mccarthy came up behind him and elbowed him in what he described as a shot to the kidneys. later in the day, kevin mccarthy ga gaggled with reporters, denied this happened. said if he had meant to hurt someone, they would know about it. burchett said there was a reporter there who witnessed him lunge forward, and here's what burchett said on our air this morning. >> just standing out there after conference, and i always talk to the press, and she was interviewing me, and you know, i fell forward after kevin popped me in the back, and, you know, and then he just kept walking with his security detail. really, it's just a sad commentary on him and his spiraling out of leadership. i've moved on. i've got no vengeance towards him. i prayed for him this morning, as a matter of fact, because i know he's hurting. >> reporter: but, kate, that wasn't the only thing we saw yesterday. then in a hearing in the senate in the help committee, you had mullen, a republican from oklahoma, a sitting united states senator who challenged one of the witnesses to a fight. now, there's a little bit of a back story with the witness criticizing mullen on what is now known as x, but mullen stood up and essentially said should we fight now, and the witness said, you know, they could go now. then you had bernie sanders, who's the chairman of that committee having to interject and say, hey, you are a sitting united states senator. this is not the time or place for this. but obviously a lot happening up here on capitol hill. and i should note that the house has been in session for ten weeks, kate. clearly it is time for members to go home for thanksgiving. kate. >> yeah, i've also been working for ten weeks, i think it's time for a break for me. good to see you, lauren, working ten weeks. you work like 360 weeks a work. so thank you. >> congress, they call it a recess, in my house, they call it a time-out. all right. with us now, cnn political analyst and washington bureau chief for the boston globe, the paper of record. jackie, we'll get to the votes in a second, but what did we just learn about the current atmosphere on capitol hill? >> you know, it's a real charles sumner energy up there right now. really, lauren said it, everyone is pretty done with each other, and there is this on animosity. it hasn't been dealt with. the republican party is caught in this loop of in-fighting. will time and space help them? that remains to be seen. on the other end of this, there's a spending fight in the middle of january and going to groundhog day, seriously, february 2nd. so they may have pushed this off past the holidays, and maybe some turkey will do them some good, but the fractures still remain, the problems still remain, and they still got to keep the government funded going into next year. >> so you talked about the actual vote they cast yesterday, in addition to the kidney punches and the smurf calling and things like that. they voted, the house basically pushed off the idea of a government shutdown, voted to until january and february, but there were more democrats who voted for this bill than republicans. how is that not embarrassing to this new speaker? >> this new speaker did exactly what kevin mccarthy did when he was able to lift the debt ceiling. he banded with democrats to make that happen. johnson has a lot more trust of the conservative wing of the party, so his job is fine, but it seems like he is using the time. this has been a learning on the job for him. the conservative members that ousted mccarthy are willing to give him a chance, but the honeymoon is over. going into the next year, you can expect the fights to continue and the presidential race and their own elections are getting closer and closer. so if you want to show that you can govern and get stuff done, they've got a big challenge going into 2024 to get that, you know, all the families as they used to talk about them during kevin mccarthy's tenure together, singing from the same hymnal. >> no shut down under the tree for christmas. we could be seeing one in january, february, is there any sign that they'll get around that? >> i've learned with this congress not to make predictions. there's a standard. they have empowered this democratic minority. there isn't going to be, that we know of, the ratio is not going to chang

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