Naperville Council members apologize for not speaking on deaths in Gaza sooner
The comments came after an emotional meeting Tuesday night where residents expressed outrage over the killings of humanitarian aid workers.
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The comments came after an emotional meeting Tuesday night where residents expressed outrage over the killings of humanitarian aid workers.
Members of the Naperville City Council apologized for not speaking out about the war in Gaza sooner. The comments came after an emotional meeting Tuesday night where residents expressed outrage over the killings of humanitarian aid workers.
The bodies of several foreign aid workers killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza are being taken back to their home countries.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's armed forces "unintentionally" struck a convoy from the humanitarian group late Monday, killing the seven aid workers,
The World Central Kitchen workers' caravan was struck by an Israeli airstrike in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was an "unintentional" tragedy. CBS 2 Political Reporter Chris Tye reports.
Israel's military said it killed scores of Hamas and other militants and seized weapons and valuable intelligence during a two-week raid on Gaza's largest hospital. But one Palestinian said, "The occupation destroyed all sense of life here."
Leyan, 14, says her life was forever changed on Oct. 27 when a blast hit her house.
On Good Friday, Christian pilgrims filled the ancient alleyways of Jerusalem, praying and singing as they walked the Via Dolorosa, in English, the Way of Suffering. This year’s procession was smaller than usual as many stayed away because of the Israel-Hamas War.
Leyan, 14, says her life was forever changed on Oct. 27 when a blast hit her house in Gaza.
More than a million Palestinians in Gaza are facing imminent famine, according to a new report from the United Nations, and the International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to immediately allow food and water into the Gaza Strip. Israel has been accused of deliberately starving Palestinian civilians. Dr. John Kahler, a pediatrician and co-founder of the medical nonprofit Medglobal, recently returned from his second aid trip to Gaza and shared what he witnessed.
Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez has said he wasn't aware a flag was burned before he spoke at a protest rally. Some colleagues want him to lose his seat as Housing Committee chair.
Israel says the U.S. declining to block a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate Gaza cease-fire "gives Hamas hope."
Protest organizers want to be able to march in sight and sound of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center.
The groups had sought permits for protest marches on the first and last days of the Democratic National Convention in August, with parade routes that would have taken them within one block of the United Center
It comes as several countries continue to discuss a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, months into the war.
Bennett Johnson has spent a lifetime championing and advocating for marginalized communities. He's organized with Dr. King, and consulted for Muhammad Ali.
Many Palestinian-Americans and their allies are using their vote in the Illinois primary to protest President Joe Biden's refusal to call for a permanent ceasefire in the war in Gaza.
It comes as Israel prepares for a potentially catastrophic invasion of Rafah. That's the southern Gaza city, where over a million Palestinian civilians have been taking refuge for months.
Many people in the Chicago area were using their vote in Tuesday's primary election as a form of protest against the war in Gaza. It's part of a nationwide movement reaching the city, as some voters protest President Joe Biden's refusal to call for a permanent ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas by writing in "Gaza" as their chosen presidential candidate on the Democratic primary ballot.
Pro-Palestinian groups on Monday called out Chicago leaders for denying their applications to protest outside the Democratic National Convention in August.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his military will press on with plans to push into the southern Gaza border town of Rafah as ceasefire talks continue between Israel and Hamas amid a new "precise operation" carried out by the Israel Defense Forces.
Both protests showed increasing divisions as the country's war with Hamas reaches its fifth month.
A similar protest took place in Southeast Michigan – which, like the Chicago area, has a significant Arab-American population.
Senior White House officials are in Chicago, meeting with Arab and Palestinian leaders to discuss the war in Gaza, amid growing concerns over Islamophobia in the U.S. Meantime, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an "obstacle to peace" and urged Israel to hold new elections.
International aid organizations are saying children in Gaza are dying of starvation, and are warning of a looming famine amid the Israel-Hamas war, even as the U.S. and other countries airdrop food and work to deliver badly needed aid.
