Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal finalized, Netanyahu's office says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced that Israel's negotiating team had finalized a deal on the release of hostages held in Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced that Israel's negotiating team had finalized a deal on the release of hostages held in Gaza.
The new sparked joy in Gaza, but many are anxious that the fragile agreement could fall apart.
The ceasefire and hostage release agreement will halt more than a year of fighting in the Gaza Strip.
After 15 months of fighting, Israel and Hamas agreed on a plan exchanging hostages for prisoners and opening Gaza to aid organizations. As Sara Machi reports, both Jewish and Palestinian groups in Chicago are expressing hope, but it is tempered with a year and three months of pain.
There is a conflicting feeling—with a sense of optimism, but also concern that the ceasefire deal will last, and that both Palestinians and Jews can really heal. Sabrina Franza reports.
A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas calls for the release of dozens of hostages and prisoners on both sides, and will allow for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Gaza to return to what remains of their homes. William Muck, a professor of political science at North Central College, breaks down what still has to happen for the ceasefire to take effect and the role that the incoming Trump administration had in securing it.
Advocates are cautious because there have been ceasefire talks that have failed in the past, but they are optimistic nonetheless.
Advocates are cautious because there have been ceasefire talks that have failed in the past, but they are optimistic nonetheless. Sara Machi reports.
This is the second year Christians living in the Gaza Strip will have a Christmas season without celebrations.
Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, of Darien, Illinois, was charged with two felony hate crime counts and one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
A 64-year-old woman from Chicago's western suburbs is facing hate crime charges and accused of assaulting a Palestinian-American couple in a video that went viral.
The 64-year-old woman from Chicago's western suburbs is facing hate crime charges, accused of assaulting a Palestinian American couple in a Panera in Downers Grove. Tara Molina reports.
Advocates for the Palestinian cause have called Rapaport a "racist Zionist."
Organizers of the protest said the current administration was warned of a Trump win if the War in Gaza persisted and U.S. funding to Israel continued.
Organizers of the protest said the current administration was warned of this out come if the War in Gaza persisted and U.S. funding to Israel continued. Meanwhile, as Charlie De Mar reports, immigrants' rights advocates are also concerned about what will happen in the new Trump administration.
Two Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza killed at least 78 Palestinians, many of them women and children, according to Gaza's health ministry.
Displaced Palestinians ordered to evacuate their neighborhoods were fleeing the northern Gaza Strip amid Israeli military operations, as calls continue to grow for the fighting to stop in Gaza. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will push to resume ceasefire talks during his tour of the Middle East.
The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar "is an important landmark in the decline of the evil rule of Hamas," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon said its headquarters in Naqoura was hit again, with a peacekeeper struck by gunfire late Friday and in stable condition.
Vigils were held for the Palestinian cause in Uptown and Logan Square Monday night. Darius Johnson reports.
In response to the deadly Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, Israel responded by launching an intense bombing campaign in Gaza, which has killed 42,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health ministry. The U.N. called Gaza a "graveyard" for children. Amid the uncertainty and chaos, the story of one toddler with a broken heart and a shattered leg escaping the brutality of war offers a tale of resilience.
Two doctors who just returned from Gaza on humanitarian medical missions shared their experience treating Palestinian patients at a hospital there.
The complaint alleges "a pattern of discrimination that has caused an increasingly hostile environment at UChicago for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students and students associated with them."
A federal civil rights complaint alleges “a pattern of discrimination that has caused an increasingly hostile environment at UChicago for Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students and students associated with them.” Megan Hickey reports.
In the audience was the mother of Wadee Alfayoumi, the 6-year-old Palestinian American boy who was tragically stabbed to death in Plainfield, Illinois, last fall.
