Families of Israeli hostages taken captive to Gaza by Islamist group Hamas urged U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday to work on a deal to free those still being held before winter.

President Biden asked President-elect Trump during their two-hour meeting on Wednesday to work together in order to push for a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas. Why it matters: Biden wants to use the two months he has left in office to break the prolonged deadlock in the negotiations over a Gaza deal.

Biden says he is ‘mildly hopeful’ for Gaza hostages and calls again for two-state solution - Biden backs Israel’s hospital raids amid protests and international criticism

Israeli officials said their military teams brought incubators, baby food and medical supplies to Gaza's largest hospital as they moved in.

Israel said it had launched a military operation against Hamas early Wednesday morning inside Gaza’s largest hospital Al-Shifa, where thousands of Palestinians are believed to be sheltering.

Israel officials claimed they found “concrete evidence” of Hamas operating a military facility beneath al Shifa hospital during their overnight raid as IDF soldiers also delivered much-needed supplies to Gaza’s largest medical center.