St. Paul City Council unanimously passes Israel-Hamas cease-fire resolution
The St. Paul City Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday calling for an immediate and permanent mutual cease-fire in Israel in Gaza.
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The St. Paul City Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday calling for an immediate and permanent mutual cease-fire in Israel in Gaza.
Minnesota organizers of the Uncommitted movement say the momentum started in Michigan last week during its presidential primary, but it clearly didn't stop there.
The method of voting "uncommitted" was used in Michigan to protest President Biden's response to the war in Gaza.
A damning U.N. report backs long-standing claims of rape and other brutal sexual violence by Hamas militants.
"People in Gaza are starving," Vice President Harris says, mounting pressure on Israel and Hamas to agree to a cease-fire.
A grassroots group in Minnesota is pushing Democrats to vote 'uncommitted' on Super Tuesday as a means to protest his stance on the war in the Middle East.
Three planes from Air Forces Central dropped 66 bundles containing about 38,000 meals into Gaza on Saturday.
A senior U.S. official says Israel has essentially endorsed a framework of a proposed Gaza cease-fire and hostage release deal, and it is now up to Hamas to agree to it.
Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on Gazans waiting for food, but Israel says people were "crushed and trampled" in a rush for aid.
President Biden has said the U.S. was working to negotiate a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas that would pause fighting in Gaza for at least six weeks.
More than 29,000 have been killed in Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war, officials in Gaza say. An American doctor and an aid worker describe the deepening misery in the region as Israel's offensive continues.
Israeli police say Palestinian gunmen killed at least 1 person in the West Bank in an attack lauded as heroic by Hamas.
The United States has vetoed an Arab-backed and widely supported U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.
Health officials say five patients died after their oxygen ran out in southern Gaza's main hospital that was stormed by Israeli troops.
The move, which Democratic lawmakers in Congress had demanded last year, is expected to shield several thousand Palestinians living in the U.S. from deportation.
A war a world away is fueling tensions here at home. In "Talking Points," Esme Murphy looks at the deepening political divide over the Israel-Hamas war and how it could impact the presidential election.
President Biden said the U.S. is negotiating a hostage deal that "would bring an immediate and sustained period of calm to Gaza for at least six weeks."
Dozens of Palestinians were killed in airstrikes that were part of the raid in the city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian hospital officials.
The International Court of Justice says Israel's actions in Gaza are sufficient to warrant the court hearing a genocide case brought by South Africa.
The resolution has been a topic of heavy controversy this week. It already went through at least eight amendments Tuesday, in front of a capacity-capped crowd of Palestinian rights supporters and local Jewish leaders.
Israel pounds Gaza with artillery, terrifying civilians sheltering in a hospital, as Netanyahu rejects calls for a 2-state solution.
More than 25,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza.
A surgeon at the European Hospital in Gaza tells CBS News he's working in increasingly desperate circumstances as Israel's advance pushes civilians to seek safety.
Iran says it blew up an Israeli "espionage headquarters" in northern Iraq, but one analyst says it has "nothing to do with Israel" and "everything to do with" U.S.-Iran tension.
The couple said Jehad easily became part of their family and remains part of it today. He returned home to his family in Gaza in June 2023. Once the war started, everything changed for him and his family.
