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Benjamin Netanyahu told US TV viewers: \u201cIf we don\u2019t win now, then Europe is next and you\u2019re next. We have to win to protect Israel. We have to win to safeguard the Middle East. We have to win for the sake of the civilised world. That\u2019s the battle we\u2019re fighting, and it\u2019s being waged right now. There is no substitute for that victory.\u201d<\/p>\n
As he spoke, world leaders called for Gaza\u2019s largest hospital to be protected as Israeli troops closed in.<\/p>\n
The World Health Organisation says the Al-Shifa Hospital resembles a cemetery. Doctors there told how around 200 patients had been buried in a mass grave.<\/p>\n
People are dying because of a lack of medicine and power cuts are shutting down hospital equipment, they say.<\/p>\n
Dr Adnan al-Bursh told the BBC that hospital staff spent six hours burying bodies in the hospital grounds \u2013 while another 80 were still in the morgue.<\/p>\n
READ MORE <\/strong> David Lammy slams Jeremy Corbyn after refusal to call Hamas terrorists<\/strong><\/p>\n The United Nations says dozens of babies and kidney patients can no longer be treated because of a lack of electricity.<\/p>\n US President Joe Biden told reporters at the White House: \u201cIt\u2019s my hope and expectation that there will be less intrusive action relative to the hospital. The hospital must be protected.\u201d<\/p>\n PM Rishi Sunak also spoke of the \u201cterrible suffering\u201d of Palestinians in Gaza, saying too many civilians were dying.<\/p>\n While backing Israel\u2019s right to defend itself, he called for pauses in the fighting. And a spokesman for UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said he was \u201cdeeply disturbed by the horrible situation and dramatic loss of life in several hospitals in Gaza.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the name of humanity, the secretary-general calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n Yesterday the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory proposed that the Al-Shifa hospital be evacuated under the supervision of the Red Cross, but Israel is yet to respond. Israel \u2013 which accuses Hamas of operating bases under hospitals including Al-Shifa \u2013 says it will evacuate babies for treatment elsewhere and deliver incubators from a hospital in Israel.<\/p>\n But one UK charity, Medical Aid for Palestinians, said the hospital needed power, not incubators because it already had them Chief executive Melanie Ward said: \u201cWhat is killing the babies is the lack of fuel that is being provided to the hospital because Israel is preventing it from getting fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell said the UK was considering using \u201cair and maritime options\u201d to get more aid into Gaza.<\/p>\n He told the Commons: \u201cWe also are urging the Israeli government to increase humanitarian access including by Rafah (Egyptian border crossing) and by opening up the Kerem Shalom crossing.<\/p>\n \u201cAt this point we assess that land presently offers the most viable and safe way to get humanitarian aid into Gaza in the quantities needed, but we are also considering air and maritime options, including through our bases in Cyprus.\u201d<\/p>\n On the ground, fighting continued across Gaza, with the Israeli Defence Forces tightening their stranglehold around Gaza City where remaining Hamas members were said to be operating in a myriad of tunnels. The Israeli army said it had captured \u201cthe Hamas parliament\u201d and other buildings in the city.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/5066394.jpg?r=1699995301478\")
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