minister netanyahu denies the idf is striking gaza's hospital, adding that israel has offered enough fuel to operate the hospital, but that offer was declined. welcome to fox news live. i'm mike emmanuel. this as idf forces continue exchanging fire along their northern and southern borders. we are live in southern israel with the latest. hello, trey. >> hey, mike. good afternoon. israeli forces continue to operate inside the gaza strip at this hour. we saw a number of airstrikes today against the northern part of gaza as the israelis are using their air force to support their infantry troops on the ground. they have reportedly surrounded a number of hospitals including the largest hospital inside the gaza strip, where we understand there are still palestinian patients inside, along with others who sheltering in place. now, the israelis say they have left open the eastern side of the hospital for evacuations, to the main evacuation corridor through the center part of the strip. in this video here, released by the israelis, they say overnight they even offered to give the hospital fuel to ensure that they would be able to continue treating the injured palestinians who are there, along with palestinian babies who are inside the maternity ward of this hospital. now, the israelis say the palestinians rejected this offer of fuel. we've not yet heard from hamas, the group in control of the gaza strip. i want you to take a listen to this doctor in a city who describes the situation at the hospital in the north. >> nobody allowed in or out. even if you are wounded or injured, you cannot be evacuated by ambulance. [inaudible]. this is the situation. >> now, the israelis say -- what you just heard there, there's a helicopter firing into the northern part of gaza, but the israelis say that the hospital is being used by hamas as a headquarters. they say there's a tunnel network underneath the hospital, but it further complicates the situation on the ground, mike, because you have civilians who are vulnerable inside the hospital. you also have hamas underneath the hospital, according to the israelis, and they have the facility completely surrounded. mike? >> mike: trey doing a great job in southern israel. thanks. for more on the war, i'm joined by former israeli ambassador to the u.s. >> good to be with you. >> let's talk about the concerns of the hospital situation. let's play the clip. >> the united states does not want to see firefights in hospitals, where innocent people, patients, receiving medical care are caught in the cross fire. we have had active consultations with the israeli defense forces on this. >> mike: what about that concern, sir? >> we share it. we don't want to see a firefight in a hospital. we don't want to see innocent patients or palestinians hurt in that firefight. at the end of the day, it is not up to us, now, is it? it is up to the hamas headquarters which is located beneath that hospital. israel must get to that hospital -- that headquarters. it must destroy those headquarters in order to cut off the command-and-control ability of hamas throughout the gaza strip. now, israel's been trying evacuate people from that hospital, babies from that hospital, trying to provide 300 liters of fuel to the hospital. hamas prevented it. hamas has prevented people from leaving the hospital because they want to use the hospital and the patients in it as human shields. >> mike: any idea why hamas would reject the oil? >> because it wants to be able to blame a humanitarian crisis on israel. you know, for about a year, when i was in israeli government, i was in charge of gaza and the humanitarian situation in gaza. israel had the ability to move in 1200 huge flatbed trucks into gaza every day everything you wanted with food fuel toys clothing, hamas only allowed a few trucks so people would be hungry, angry, and dependent on hamas. they don't operate in the way civilized human beings do. it is different. it is not surprising to me that hamas would prevent fuel from reaching this hospital and that hamas would prevent civilians and sick people from leaving the hospital. they want to use them as the human shields. >> mike: there's a report from an israeli journalist saying that prime minister netanyahu is trying to bring in former british prime minister tony blair to coordinate humanitarian operations. do you know anything about that? >> i don't. tony blair has had a long and trusting relationship with the israeli government, with myself personally, and if he were involved, i think it would be very positive. >> mike: what more does israel need from the united states at this critical stage? >> the major thing is to keep resisting pressure for a cease-fire. that pressure is mounting. and hamas knows it. hamas wants civilians to get killed. it wants hard pictures, pictures coming out of gaza in the press, and those will trigger protests. and those protests will put pressure on governments including the united states government to do a cease-fire. hamas wants a cease-fire because that means hamas gets away with mass murder. hamas wants a cease-fire because it knows without a cease-fire, israel can't restore internal security. we have 250,000 people who have been forced out of their homes. they will not be able to go back to their homes. we will not be able to restore our regional deterrence power. every enemy that we have will know that they can hit us and we try to defend ourselves, the world will slap a cease-fire on our hands. a cease-fire for israel, i mean this, there's no hyperbole, a cease-fire means death. we need our american allies to keep running that interference for us from the world and give us time to fight the enemy that we need to destroy. >> mike: grateful for your time and analysis today, sir. all the best. >> thank you very much. >> mike: five americans were killed last night during a routine training mission in the mediterranean sea. this as iran-backed attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east continue. lucas tomlinson is live in wilmington, delaware work the latest. hello, lucas. >> mike, a short time ago the white house releasing a statement about those five american servicemembers that were killed in an aircraft crash in the eastern mediterranean during a midair refuelling exercise. the white house and president biden saying in a statement, quote, jill and i mourn the loss of five american servicemembers who died when their aircraft crashed in the mediterranean sea during a routine training mission. our servicemembers put their lives on the line for our country every day. they willingly take risks to keep the american people safe and secure. fox news sunday senator mark warner was asked by shannon bream if iran is being deterred in the wake of those dozens of attacks on u.s. forces in the middle east. >> i think by placing both a carrier group in the red sea, eastern med, announcing that we sent a submarine, we never normally announce that, and bombing some of the facilities outside of iran, i think it's terribly important. >> and the u.s. military not announcing what type of aircraft crash in the eastern mediterranean, mike. u.s. forces in the middle east have been attacked nearly 50 times in less than a month. iran and its proxy forces have continued to launch drones and rockets at u.s. bases, targeting some of the 2500 american troops in iraq and 900 in neighboring syria. there have been six attacks since wednesday after a pair of u.s. air force f-15 strike eagles hit that warehouse in eastern syria used to store weapons the pentagon says were used to attack americans in the middle east. the "wall street journal" editorial page says iran has not been deterred despite the deployment of american fire power to the middle east saying quote, president biden's weak responses to attacks on u.s. forces aren't deterring iran and its proxies which increases the risk of escalation. the surgical u.s. military strikes? response in response aren't -- aren't making --. earlier today the security advisor spoke. >> no reoccupation of gaza. no forcible displacement of the palestinian people. gaza can never be used as a base for terrorism in the future, and gaza's territory should not be reduced. >> president biden meets chinese president xi jinping in san francisco later this week on wednesday, mike, and the white house says they want china's help to mediate an end to israel's war against hamas. mike? >> mike: lucas tomlinson live up in road in wilmington on this veteran's day weekend. lucas, thank you for your service and thank you for that report. san francisco cleaning up its streets ahead of wednesday's meeting between president biden and chinese president. governor smu newsom says the city is taking measures. >> some homeless encampments that residents have had to dodge for years due to trash, fecal matter and fears being attacked are now getting cleared out since president biden and chinese president will be meeting. >> when a genocidal communist dictator comes to town, the ideas of equity vanish and the streets get cleaned up. what kind of message does that send? it means california politicians like newsom know that san francisco is an embarrassment and they don't care about the residents they only care about impressing xi jinping. if it weren't so sad, it would actually be funny >> the governor admitted the city was cleaned up ahead of the big conference. 21 world leaders from pacific rim countries in addition to more than 20,000 visitors are expected to be in town. >> i know folks say they are just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town. that's true. i'm so excited about showing this off to 21 fancy foreign leaders from around the world. >> but critics also question whether the clean up job is just a band-aid for a problem that's plagued this city for decades. >> for years, san francisco residents have had to put up with rampant homelessness, open air drug use, assaults, and feces-lined streets all in the name of some twisted progressive notion of equity. >> california has spent billions, billions of dollars to reduce homelessness over the years, but it's still a huge problem in this democrat-run state. mike? >> mike: christina coleman reporting live. thank you very much. for more on the up coming biden xi meeting, let's bring in the political panel, fox news contributor richard fowler and american first chief communications director mark loddard. gentlemen, welcome. richard what should president biden emphasize with president xi this week >> i think this is going to be critical. the meeting comes at a time when on capitol hill there's a lot of sabre rattling of china. you heard members of capitol hill saying this is the new cold war but it really isn't because our economy and china's economy are woven together. it is not like a time when we didn't really have involvement with russia. 85 percent of iowa's electricity comes from wind tur bins. 90 percent of those wind turbines come from china. as we approach our relationship with china, the trick here is to talk about the facts. what can we do to bring the temperature down between these two countries because they sort of need each other in this moment to survive as we work onramping up our semiconductor production, as we work onramping up our ability to produce various technologies we need for smart phone, laptop, electric or regular vehicle, if it is a semiconductor, we're going to have to tone the temperature down. i think that's what the president is going to have to try to do. i also think xi will try to do the same thing. he needs the united states economy just as much as the united states economy needs. >> what should the president bring up in this meeting. ? >> i agree with his points but i think he is taking the point away. the fact they are so connected economically makes it the greatest threat we have ever faced. we didn't have that kind of relationship with the soviet union or the axis powers. they were military opponents. china is a military and an economic competitor. the question for them is do you want to be our enemy? because you continue to destabilize asia. you continue to threaten taiwan. and when you're asking -- when biden is asking xi jinping to help mediate israel, xi jinping is sitting there going they're going to react the same way if i take taiwan and show weakness and actually back down because they don't have the fortitude to actually do what's right. >> that's a political statement what i'm talking about this idea that predicting this doomsday scenario around china and the united states when if you talk to the business community, when you talk to some of the biggest companies in the united states, the biggest companies in the world, they would say there's an interconnectivity here that we need to work until the united states can ramp up its production. if you talk to the biggest companies in china, they would say we need this relationship to work until we can ramp up production in china. i think both the business community is saying to their two elected leaders we have to tone this temperature down so we can keep business moving. i think that's part of the problem. >> final word? >> if we don't start to decouple and don't demand changes from their malign actions, around the world, whether it's in africa or in asia, then we are going to continue to do ourselves more harm and put ourselves in a position where we are weakened in front of china. >> mark, i don't disagree with you. i think the problem is you're living in -- you're living in a world in which you think this happens overnight. many of the things we're talking about -- let's go back to the iowa scenario. many factories required to build things go into wind turbines take 10 to 15 to 20 years to build. this can't happen tomorrow. the temperature needs to be cooled so the united states manufacturing can ramp up to that level. >> we have to stop incentivizing china. >> it is about getting our economy to catch up and their economy to catch up. >> we rely on china, we are actually putting american autoworkers who currently have jobs at risk while china takes a greater lead in the production of these key elements, and it's just emboldening china and weakening america. >> wait a minute here. last year when the president passed the semiconductor bill, which was a step in the right direction, democrats republicans worked together. that money is just starting to hit the streets yesterday. figuratively; right? these factories are just starting to be built. they are just dropping foundation on some of them. they aren't open or produce anything. the idea to sabre rattle today not being ready for tomorrow, that's where the problem comes in. >> we have to use our leverage and our economic advantage -- >> i'm not denying that. >> -- to get changes from china. we're not getting it. >> it is disingenuous to tell the odd qeens this can happen -- audience this can happen tomorrow. >> we need to start the leadership now which we haven't seen from biden. >> when he passes a semiconductor bill, that's what he's doing. >> when we see what he talks to xi on wednesday, we won't see that leadership. >> if we're not tampering down the temperature while we work onramping up our production, we will be creating more of a problem for the united states economy. we saw that over the pandemic when we saw a shortage in semiconductors and we saw the prices of cars skyrocket >> this is nothing more than a call for a cease-fire like we see in gaza with israel with china now. >> i think you are comparing -- you are comparing apples and oranges >> when we talk about lowering the temperature, we empower china more to continue to dig in and harden its position, make it tougher for us to defend it later. >> mark, richard, we will let you guys slug it out in the green room. thank you very much for your time today. well done. newly elected speaker -- house speaker mike jobson announcing -- johnson announcing the two step plan to avoid a shutdown ahead of friday night's midnight deadline not including aid to israel or ukraine. government funding set to expire this friday, november 17th. g.o.p. presidential candidates are on the road this weekend. front runner former president donald trump held a campaign rally in new hampshire last night highlighting how america and israel were safe during his presidency. meanwhile former governor christie visits israel to meet with families of hostages held by hamas. alexandria hough is live with the latest. hello. >> this weekend was a different scene depending on which g.o.p. candidate you were watching. former president trump ended last night at a ufc fight at madison square garden after holding the veteran's day rally in new hampshire. >> you are going to end up in world war iii because of this. no reason for it. millions of people will die. i know the players. i know the job. i alone in this primary have borne the burden of having troops in harm's way as commander-in-chief of the u.s. armed forces. >> stern warning there. now trump did push through an apparent moment of misspeaking. we've heard similar from the current administration. but mixing up president biden's name with former president obama. >> they were interviewing him two weeks ago, and they said what would you advise president obama? the whole world seems to be exploding and imploding. >> as the current g.o.p. front-runner highlighted what he sees as weakness be -- weakness by the current administration on the world stage, chris christie traveled to israel landed this morning seeking to gain perspective that he can bring back home. >> they need to know exactly what happened here. they need to hear from some of their leaders as well. i wanted to come here, wanted to show solidarity, but also to bring back information to continue to get the support from the american people for the state of israel >> former u.n. ambassador haley weighed in on the crisis as well. she appeared on fox news sunday. >> this is a tough situation. but this is not just an israel issue. this is an american issue. 33 americans were murdered. they have american hostages right now. israel is the tip of the spear when it comes to terrorism. >> also this weekend, governor desantis was in iowa, ramaswamy campaigned if new hampshire. -- in new hampshire. >> mike: things are heating up. alexandria, thank you very much. border officials recently conducted several high speed chases in pursuit of human smugglers at our border. bill melugin is live at the border. he's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (tony hawk) skating for over 45 years has taken a toll on my body. i take qunol turmeric because it helps with healthy joints and inflammation support. why qunol? 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