Tonight, new hope for a deal to release potentially dozens of hostages.

I believe we are closer than we have been in quite some time.

Deputy National Security Advisor John Feiner, telling Meet the Press moderator Kristen Wellker, that negotiations include a multi-day stop in the fighting.

Executing the deal would involve moving hostages around what is a very dangerous battlefield in Gaza. But it would also have the ancillary benefit, the important benefit of making it easier to distribute humanitarian assistance throughout Gaza.

That news comes to night as the Israeli military released this footage, claiming to show the desperate moments, terrorists took two hostages into Al-Shifah Hospital. One by stretcher, the other dragged in. On the morning of the October seventh attack, the death tax. What happened next? We don't know. But the Israelis alleged this footage shows a tunnel stretching more than 30 feet beneath the hospital complex, leading to this blast door, which the Israeli military says it has yet to open. Bbc News has been unable to verify the claims that are part of the growing evidence the Israelis alleged, the Moss has been exploiting the Al-Shifah hospital for cover. Tonight, the World Health Organization says that same hospital is now a death zone, having been surrounded and cut off by Israeli forces for nearly two weeks. Today, they evacuated 31 premature babies, once given days to live in Al-Shifah, now being treated down south. Though some of the babies didn't survive the trip.

As soon as we arrived there, unfortunately, two newborn babies were declared dead.

This weekend, the WHO and other aid groups visited the embattled hospital, noting the desperate conditions inside and the mass grave out front. The UN, with this message for the hospital staff who risked everything.

That you continue to deliver the best possible care for your patients and their families is nothing short of heroic.

This is thousands of Gozans flee the continued violence in the north any way they can. But with the Israeli military increasing the pace of its assault on Hamas to the south, tonight in Gaza, there's growing fear. There's nowhere left to go. Back now with Aaron, and Aaron, not everyone has been evacuated from Al-Shifah Hospital. How many patients still remain?

Kate, the WHO says 250 patients and 20 medical staff are still waiting to be evacuated. Like to hospitals already overstretched in the south.

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