the senate. the president, by the way, has indicated he would sign it. earlier this month, lawmakers approved a package of six different bills to fund the rest of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year. with us now nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, good morning. as we re seeing activity there on the hill, this bill needs a two-thirds vote to pass. how does it look? reporter: everybody we re talking to seems reasonably confident this bill is going to pass, jose. both the house and the senate. but it is not going to come easy. as you point out, this is a bill that the way the procedure that they re using to pass it on the house floor means it requires two-thirds to pass. normally a simple majority. they need around 280 votes to get over the finish line. it is going to be a combination of republicans and democrats. this morning we have seen conservative republicans, members of the house freedom caucus in particular, really put pressure on thei
an adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu told the bbc that israel was making the maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. israel has been dropping leaflets with maps, showing gazans the areas it plans to strike. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams explains why that often isn t protecting civilians. this has been a problem throughout the past two months. israel believes and says it is giving as much notice as it possibly can to the civilian population to leave certain areas where the fighting is most concentrated. they believe these new maps, with this detailed grid, numbered grid, should help that process because they are saying to people in certain numbered areas, these are the areas you have to leave. the trouble is people don t know where they should leave to. israel is also hitting targets outside of those demarcated areas. anything that the israelis regard as a high value target where hamas might have some of its infrastructure or where acre hamas commande
the operations in the south will be conducted with no less strength than in the north. hospitals inside gaza are struggling to take in the casualties with un officials describing a degree of panic in medicalfacilities that hasn t been seen before. an adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu told the bbc that israel was making the maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. israel has been dropping leaflets with maps, showing gazans the areas that it plans to strike. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams explains why that often isn t protecting civilians. this has been a problem throughout the past two months. israel believes and says that it is giving as much notice as it is giving as much notice as it possibly can to the civilian population to leave certain areas where the fighting is most concentrated. and they believe that these new maps with this detailed grid, numbered grid should help that process because they are saying to people in certain numbered areas, t