Hamas said Saturday that it was reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as Egypt intensified efforts to broker a deal to end the months-long war.
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As some students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at U.S. college campuses vowed to keep their demonstrations going, some universities moved to shut down encampments.
Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States peacefully evacuated a campus building at a prestigious French university.
U.N. investigators are looking into allegations against staffers from the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians who Israel claims were involved in the Oct. 7 attack.
Protesters at universities across the country are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies they say are enabling the conflict.
The protest, which prompted the university to move classes online, was inspired by pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses across the United States.
The U.S. has determined that an Israeli military unit committed gross human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza began.
The attack follows an uptick in assaults launched by the Houthis in recent days after a relative lull in their monthslong campaign over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel on Friday with the hope of brokering a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza, two officials said.
Speaking at Washington National Cathedral, José Andrés said there was no excuse for the killings and he called for an investigation into the deaths.
The comments by Khalil al-Hayya in an interview Wednesday came amid a stalemate in months of talks for a cease-fire in Gaza.
The building of a new port in the Gaza Strip is well underway, according to satellite images analyzed Thursday by The Associated Press.
Some U.S. universities called in police to break up demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war, while others appeared content to wait out student protests Thursday.
Police bulldozed into student protesters at a Texas university, arresting over a dozen people, while new student encampments sprouted at Harvard and other colleges.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the White House meeting with Abigail and her family was “a reminder of the work still to do” to win the release of dozens of people who were taken captive by Hamas terrorists in an Oct. 7 attack on Israel and are still believed to be in captivity in Gaza.