From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the Daily.

Israel's war against Hamas has caused large-scale destruction in Gaza and a death toll

that now stands at nearly 13,000 people according according to Gaza Health Officials.

Now, as the war enters its seventh week,

Israel finds itself under intense pressure

from allies and from critics to justify its strategy.

Today, my colleague Patrick Kingsley goes inside Gaza with the Israeli military

to a hospital that's at the heart of Israel's argument.

It's Tuesday, November 21st.

So Patrick, late Thursday night, you were one of five journalists who were invited by the Israeli military to go inside Gaza, to see really for the first time

what things looked like on the ground. So tell me how this trip came about and what your questions were going into it, what you wanted to understand. The context was that Israel had just taken control of parts or most of a hospital that has been at the center of the

discourse about Israel's invasion of Gaza and basically become a proxy for a wider debate about the conduct of Israel's

airstrikes and its invasion.

Right. The hospital, Al-Shifa is the largest in Gaza and Israel has since the start of its

invasion maintained that it conceals a secret Hamas military base and that therefore the hospital even though it is a civilian

institution must be captured in order to defeat Hamas and remove Hamas's

military capabilities. The war as we know has caused catastrophic loss of

civilian life.

Around 13,000 people, according to the Garson Health Ministry,

have been killed since the start of the war in Gaza.

Many of them are civilians, many of them children

and to Palestinians and to many international observers that is evidence of Israel's

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