including our exclusive interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who we spoke with earlier today. we asked him about the ongoing negotiations with hamas on the release of hostages in exchange for a temporary cease fire, while israel is facing tough questions from around the world about the conduct of the war. tonight, he answers those questions. also today, the israeli military says it found tunnels dug beneath gaza's al-shifa hospital and released video of its discovery. we also speak with america's top diplomat, secretary of state antony blinken, about that historic summit between president biden and china's president xi jinping. the new deal to crack down on the chemicals that make fentanyl, the drug that has caused so much pain and heartbreak here in america. with all of the biggest developments tonight, we are going to with cbs's debora patta who is in east jerusalem. >> reporter: with every bomb, every strike, families of the more than 200 hostages abducted by hamas on october 7th are reminded that nearly six weeks on, their loved ones are still being held in gaza. tonight, more agony. the body of 65 year old grandmother yehudit waiss, abducted last month, found in a building near al-shifa hospital. the israeli military continues to search that hospital, where today it found more proof, it says, that hamas was using this as a command center. including a tunnel shaft and a vehicle with weapons. >> as you can see, they were very well prepared and where they are hiding all of this equipment is in a hospital, a place that is supposed to be for humanitarian aid. >> reporter: al-shifa can no longer receive new patients, and so they flee, in their thousands, streaming southwards, setting up temporary shelter, only to be told today by israeli soldiers that they must evacuate again. but if they stay, they risk becoming part of the soaring death toll, which the hamas-run health ministry puts at around 11,500. that is one out of every 200 palestinian. >> it is not about the numbers. it is about eliminating evil. >> reporter: and cbs news has learned that israel is considering a deal that would see hamas release some women and children in exchange for a three- to five-day cease-fire and possibly some palestinian women and children, norah, being held in israeli prisons. >> norah: debora patta, thank you. we turn now to our exclusive interview with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu about those hostage negotiations and israel's long-term plan for the gaza strip. mr. prime minister, thank you for being here on the "cbs evening news." >> prime minister netanyahu: thank you. >> norah: cbs news has learned that there is a deal on the table to free hostages in exchange for a three- to five-day cease-fire. how close are you to bring some of the hostages home? >> prime minister netanyahu: well, we are closer than before we began the ground action because the ground action put pressure on hamas to achieve a cease-fire. we will have a temporary cease-fire if we can get our hostages back. i don't think it serves that purpose for me to elaborate further on that. we are doing every effort. it is part of our three war goals. one, to destroy hamas. second, to bring back our hostages. to israel. and third, to ensure that that threat, that terrorist threat, never arises again from gaza, and that gaza has a different future, better for us and for the palestinians and for the entire middle east, so bringing back the hostages is an integral part of our war goals and we're doing everything we can to achieve it. >> norah: but to be clear, are you considering a limited cease-fire? >> prime minister netanyahu: i said that we would have a temporary cease-fire only if we have our hostages back. and i haven't changed what i said. >> norah: and would israel agree to release palestinian prisoners in exchange for hostages? >> prime minister netanyahu: norah, i don't think it helps. [laughs] you can ask me, that is your job, you're a journalist, and you should inquire, but i think there are certain things that we are holding as confidential until we have something to tell, and when we do, if we do, you and the entire world will know about it, including the hostage families. >> norah: this is the first chance to hear from you since the targeted raid on al-shifa hospital. if hamas is using a hospital as a command center, that is a war crime. do you have concrete evidence? >> prime minister netanyahu: of course. first of all, we had concrete evidence that there were terrorist chieftains and terrorists, their terrorist minions, in the hospital, and in fact, they fled. as our forces approached, t that is why we had no firefight. we entered that hospital with arabic-speaking israeli doctors, with incubators, and we had no firefight, but hamas was using the patients in that hospital as a human shield, and on level minus 2, we found a command and control center military communications, including equipment. we found bombs. we found weapons. and we also found terror tunnels in the hospital compound. now, we are doing this very gingerly because we are trying to do the moral thing, the right thing, to deprive hamas of having this safe zone in the hospital, but at the same time, to neutralize its use as a command center for terrorism, and so far, we have achieved it. i'm glad to say that we have been able to do that. we talked to the hospital administration. we told them we are coming in. made sure no one is there, no one is hurt, and so far we have achieved that, and i hope we will continue to achieve that as we finish the job. >> norah: where are the hostages being held? do you know? >> prime minister netanyahu: we had strong indications that they were held in the shifa hospital, which is one of the reasons we entered the hospital. if they were, they were taken out. we have intelligence about the hostages, but again, as to your first question, i think the less i say about it, the better. >> norah: mr. prime minister, you have noted that one goal of the war is to deradicalize gaza, but does the violence and the killing of thousands of innocent civilians fuel a future generation of hatred? >> prime minister netanyahu: first of all, any civilian death is a tragedy. and that we shouldn't have any because we are doing everything we can to get the civilians out of harm's way while hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way, so we send leaflets, we call them, we call them on their cell phones, and we say, leave. and many have left, but hamas tried to stop them at gunpoint and fired at the safe corridors we provided for the palestinians. so they don't give a hoot about the palestinians. they think they are safe in the underground, messianic, theological, mad cult that is fighting below, and they are saying, you know, damn the palestinians above. we don't say that. we do everything we can to have them leave. that is what we are doing. the other thing that i can say is that we will try to finish that job with minimal civilian casualties. that is what we're trying to do, minimal civilian casualties, but unfortunately, we are not successful. and i will give you -- you know, i will give you a parallel. because the german -- >> norah: mr. prime minister, i know we don't have that much time so i want to ask you about the future of gaza. president biden has made it clear to you that it would be a big mistake to occupy gaza. do you disagree with president biden? >> prime minister netanyahu: we want overall military responsibility to prevent the reemergence of terror. we are not seeking to occupy. that is not our goal. but our goal is to make sure that what happens there is different. to do that, we have to demilitarized gaza and we have to deradicalize gaza. just as you had to have a different future, you know, after the conquest of germany, you deradicalize, denazify germany. after the conquest of japan, you made sure that the aggressive policies of imperial japan are different. there was a cultural change. we need a cultural change here. we can't have a civilian administration enter gaza that will not fight terrorists, that is committed to funding terrorists, as opposed to fighting terrorists, that uses pay for slay, that teaches its children, the way hamas teaches its children -- >> norah: are you -- >> prime minister netanyahu: that can't work. we can't go back to failed strategies. there has to be a different regime and a different future for israelis and palestinians alike. that is what will give hope to the palestinians. we liberate them from hamas, liberate them from this tyranny, give them a real future, and that requires the destruction of hamas. >> norah: and move forward on a two-state solution? >> prime minister netanyahu: and move forward to make sure you don't have a terrorist state. make sure that you don't have a state that teaches its children that you have to destroy israel, and i say, let the palestinians have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers to threaten israel, and that means not only making sure that gaza is demilitarized, but also that gaza is deradicalized, and if you ask me, we need a different, different civilian leadership than the one that has been offered to the palestinians to date. >> norah: mr. prime minister, president biden also says that extremist settlers attacking palestinians in the west bank is pouring gasoline on fire. will you hold those settlers in the west bank accountable for violence? >> prime minister netanyahu: we hold anyone taking the law into their own hands or committing vigilante violence. that is out. we cannot accept that. i mean, that is -- i have said that in hebrew, i've said that in english, i have said that in broadcasts, and i am saying it to you again. i have said that to the community leaders. by the way, they agree with me, because 99.9% of the settler community are law-abiding, solid citizens. they pay their taxes. they serve in the army. these are families that are law-abiding families. a tiny fraction, most of them are teenagers that actually, outside of judea samaria, and they should be held accountable, but i would not make a false simile between hundreds and hundreds of terrorist attacks, including today, including just today, right on the outskirts of jerusalem, of the hamas sympathizers and terrorists who shoot innocent people. we take care to fight against them, so the degree of this extremist violence is tiny, but even a tiny amount is accessible to us. that is the different. and you know how it is tested? norah, this is the big one. i condemn these actions. but the palestinian leadership, the palestinian authority leadership today, president abbas, 40 days into this horror, the worst horrors perpetrated on jews since the holocaust, the rape and murder of women, the slaughter of children in front of their parents, and parents in front of their children, the burning of babies, the beheading of women, he has yet to condemn it. i condemn any kind of violence that is perpetrated, any kind of extremist violence. he not only does not condemn it, but his officials laud it. that is the difference. there is no symmetry between israel and its foes. >> norah: mr. prime minister, and understand our time is up. i hope you will join us again on cbs. thank you. >> prime minister netanyahu: thank you, norah. appreciate it. >> norah: president biden >> prime minister netanyahu: thank you, norah. appreciate it. class photo with world leader today at the asia-pacific economic summit in san francisco. this follows his high-stakes meeting on wednesday with chinese leader xi jinping. xi pledged to crack down on the production of fentanyl ingredients and to restore military communications with the u.s. for more on the historic summit, secretary of state antony blinken joins us from san francisco. secretary blinken, thank you for joining us on this busy day, we appreciate it. >> secretary blinken: good to be with you, norah, thanks. >> norah: you attended the meeting with chinese president xi jinping, and after the summit, president xi that china is ready to be a partner and friend of the united states. do you see china as a partner and friend of the u.s.? >> secretary blinken: norah, this is one of the most consequential relationships we have, one of the mot consequential relationships between any two countries in the world, and we have an obligation to try to responsibly manage that relationship. yesterday, we agreed that our militaries would start talking again at the most senior levels and at the operational level. and this is a very important way of trying to avoid a miscalculation, a mistake that could lead to conflict. second, in terms of actually making a difference in the lives of the american people, the number one killer of americans 18-49 is fentanyl, not car accidents, not guns, not cancer, it's fentanyl. and what's happened is the chemical precursors, the ingredients used make fentanyl, have been coming from china, going to the western hemisphere, turned into fentanyl, and then coming into the united states. we now have an agreement with china to take concrete action against the companies that are engaged in this practice. >> norah: well, how can we trust that china is going to carry through with that crackdown on those chemicals that are sent to mexico, that then are turned into fentanyl? >> secretary blinken: as the president said yesterday, trust but verify. and that's what we are doing. >> norah: secretary blinken, when president biden called president xi a dictator last night, there were cameras on you, and you looked visibly uncomfortable. china today called that wrong and irresponsible. what was going through your mind, and is that the position of the u.s. government? >> secretary blinken: well, it's not exactly a secret that we have two very different systems, and the president always speaks candidly, and he speaks for all of us. look, norah, it is clear that we will continue to say things and continue to do things that china doesn't like, just as, i assume, that they will continue to do and say things that we don't like. but what's so important about the meeting yesterday, about all of the work we have been doing over the last six months to make sure that we are engaged diplomatically with them is precisely to make sure that for the things that really matter, pursuing this competition in a way that doesn't become conflict, managing our differences, and also looking for areas of cooperation. >> norah: mr. secretary, >> secretary blinken: thanks. >> norah: and the other thing we learned from the meeting is the pandas may be coming back to the united states. all right, moving on to the days other top stories, a scathing report on congressman george santos and the verdict for the man who attacked nancy pelosi's husband with a hammer. ♪ ♪ nancy pelosi's husband with a hammer. musical music why didn't we do this last year? 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