Biden heads to Israel as blast at Gaza hospital kills hundreds
President Biden is traveling to Israel to show support for a key U.S. ally as Israel and Hamas trade accusations over a deadly blast at a Gaza hospital.
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President Biden is traveling to Israel to show support for a key U.S. ally as Israel and Hamas trade accusations over a deadly blast at a Gaza hospital.
Medics in Gaza are warning that thousands could die as hospitals packed with wounded people run desperately low on fuel and basic supplies.
Tensions are rising across the United States over the Israel-Hamas war. We saw rallies here in California, including in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, where Palestinian and Israeli supporters clashed outside the Israeli consulate. Today, near the State Capitol, there was a march of around 200 people in solidarity with Palestine.
A gift Sacramento sent to its sister city in Israel has saved lives amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The shelters are reinforced concrete that allows people to dash into them if rocket sirens start to sound.
The U.S. Department of State announced a plan to fly Americans out of Israel starting Friday.
Organizers of Pro-Palestinian rallies are calling Thursday a national day of resistance.
More than 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, including 27 Americans, and over 1,500 have been killed in Gaza, according to officials.
The Gaza Strip has been pounded by relentless airstrikes since Hamas militants launched a full-scale assault on southern Israel.
At every turn, there was no escaping the intense rocket fire in Israel for Brad Waldow's family. After exhausting his options with the U.S. Embassy and airlines, Waldow turned to outside help.
"The depravity of it is haunting," an Israeli military official told CBS News of the scene in Kfar Aza, where an emergency responder says even babies were beheaded.
The death toll from Hamas' surprise attack on Israel stands at 900, while Palestinian officials say retaliatory strikes on Gaza have killed over 700.
People in Sacramento on both sides of the fighting are watching what is happening in Israel closely. The Chabad of Sacramento congregation came together for a service at their temple as fighting erupted in Israel.
Israel says it's "taking more time" than expected to fend off an unprecedented attack by Hamas, as it locks down Gaza and more rockets fly from the Palestinian enclave.
Community members in Sacramento are feeling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a very deep way including two prominent community leaders organizing their own as best they can.
Pro basketball player Brad Waldow, a Shingle Springs native, claims to have exhausted nearly every possible way of getting out of the country.
Defense Secretary Austin said Sunday that he has ordered American military ships to move closer to Israel after Hamas' unprecedented attack.
Israel's national emergency services agency says at least 1,500 more have been wounded in the Hamas military incursion.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the strike on a northeast Ukrainian village a "demonstrably brutal Russian crime," and he promised a "powerful" response.
The United States will soon send a new military aid package to Ukraine worth hundreds of millions of dollars as Ukrainian forces continue to fight off Russian attacks.
The tech billionaire says he denied an "urgent" request from Ukraine to extend Starlink satellite coverage, to avoid complicity in a "major act of war."
The pontiff urged Russian Catholic youth to embrace their heritage of the "enlightened Russian Empire."
As an apparent power struggle brings claims of an insurrection in Russia, here's what to know about the Wagner Group and its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said the missiles, "destroyed the city's blood transfusion center."
As we celebrate our freedom here in the United States, the people in Ukraine are fighting and dying for theirs. Monday morning, the city of Sumy, Sacramento's newest sister city in Ukraine, was attacked by Russian forces.
Wagner forces had been moving north toward Moscow, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News on Saturday.
