Israel-Hamas war

Makeshift tents for displaced Palestinians at a temporary camp in Rafah, southern Gaza, on May 3.

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A Gaza cease-fire deal hangs in the balance, as Israel begins striking eastern Rafah

5:20pm May 06, 2024

Hamas said it accepted a proposal for a cease-fire. Israel responded that the deal didn't meet its requirements and announced it was pushing ahead with an assault in Rafah.

A relative points to a hole in the roof of Mohammed al-Hassouni's family home. It was caused by an Iranian missile fragment that injured his 7-year-old daughter on the night Iran attacked Israel.

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When rockets fall, Bedouin Israeli citizens have nowhere to hide

12:59pm May 05, 2024

While most buildings in Israel are required to have bomb shelters, a zoning catch-22 has left Bedouin villagers unprotected.

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Ohio National Guard members towards students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, on May 4, 1970. They fired into the crowd, killing four students and injuring nine.

She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists

7:38am May 04, 2024

by Rachel Treisman

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine. A former student who now teaches there reflects on that day and offers lessons for protesters now.

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Wake Forest University officials force Pro-Palestine protesters to disband

11:53am May 03, 2024

by Amy Diaz

University officials had initially supported the students, part of a group known as Free Palestine WFU, in peacefully protesting since Tuesday afternoon. But that changed early Friday morning when officials told protesters that they had violated the agreed-upon terms of the encampment and that they would face interim suspension if they did not leave the site.

Students hold signs and lead Pro-Palestine protest outside Wait Chapel

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Wake Forest University students camp out at Wait Chapel in Pro-Palestinian protest

3:46pm May 01, 2024

by Amy Diaz

A pro-Palestine protest began on Wake Forest University’s campus Tuesday afternoon, and evolved into an encampment overnight that is still ongoing. Wake Forest officials have now entered into a written agreement with the student organizers.

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Columbia University faculty and staff gather on the campus in solidarity with student protesters on Monday.

How some faculty members are defending student protesters, in actions and in words

5:03am May 01, 2024

by Rachel Treisman

The protests sweeping college campuses don't just involve students. Professors are increasingly pushing back against university administrations they see as infringing on students' free speech rights.

Elan Tiv drives a short distance home with her five-year-old son Hadar after going for a walk on March 26 with her older daughter and her mother, Aviva Siegel, on Kibbutz Gazit, the community where she lives in northern Israel. "I feel like because it's been so long, I can't even imagine how my dad looks," Tiv says. "It feels like he might be a person that I don't even recognize."

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A freed Israeli hostage waits with hope for her husband, still held by Hamas in Gaza

4:42pm April 30, 2024

by Tamir Kalifa

Aviva Siegel, 63, was taken hostage by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, along with her husband Keith. She was released after 51 days, but he was not. On Saturday, Hamas released a video showing Keith alive.

Presiding judge Nawaf Salam (fourth from left) arrives to read a decision at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday.

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A top U.N. court won't order Germany to halt weapons exports to Israel

12:02pm April 30, 2024

by Nick Spicer

Nicaragua brought the case arguing that by providing arms to Israel, Germany is failing to prevent possible genocide against Palestinians in Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.

Dozens of tents are seen on a lawn inside the Columbia University Campus after students refused to take down the encampment by the 2 p.m. EDT deadline given to students protesting by Columbia President Minouche Shafik.

As student protesters get arrested, they risk being banned from campus too

9:57pm April 29, 2024

by Rachel Treisman

Students continue to protest at campuses across the country, despite the risk of arrest. Some schools now threaten demonstrators with disciplinary action, while others promise the opposite.

A Palestinian baby girl, saved from the womb of her mother Sabreen Al-Sakani, who was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband Shukri Jouda and her daughter Malak, lies in an incubator at the Emirati hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21.

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A baby girl born orphaned and premature after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza has died

6:48pm April 26, 2024

The newborn died after five days in an incubator. Her family was killed in an air strike. UNICEF says 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, with thousands more orphaned and wounded.