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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. Health officials in Gaza say they're under a, quote, unprecedented attack by Israeli forces in the north of the enclave. At least 22 people are dead so far, including women and children. One hospital director says his facility is being constantly hit and is taken to social media begging for international assistance. NPR's Kerry Kahn has more.
The director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza says the facility has been shelled by sniper fire and drones. The director of Kamal Adman Hospital says the attacks have come with no warning and no protection for patients and civilians.
He insists there are no military targets or fighters within his hospital, which he says has hundreds of patients and civilians there, including babies in the neonatal unit. Israel says Hamas militants operate in hospitals and schools endangering civilians. In a statement to NPR, the Israeli military says its forces have been operating in the vicinity, but not within the hospital's premises.
In the past 48 hours, more than 50 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry there. Kerry Kahn, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
A government shutdown was averted this weekend, but as NPR's Mara Liason reports, the process suggests President-elect Donald Trump may have a hard time next year passing spending bills through the House.
Before Republicans finally came up with a bill that could pass, 34 Republicans helped defeat the bill Trump wanted, a bill that would have, among other things, raised the debt ceiling. The debt ceiling is the amount of money Congress allows the government to borrow to pay for spending Congress has already approved.
Trump's plans, including tariffs, tax cuts, and deportations, are estimated to add as much as $7 trillion to the national debt, and Trump didn't want the debt ceiling in his way.
But even if Trump doesn't care about deficits, there are still about three dozen Republicans in the House that do, and that means Trump may have difficulty convincing Congress to approve all the expensive things he wants to do next year. Mara Liason, NPR News.
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