14 Gaza ceasefire protesters arrested after Travis AFB entrance blocked
The Fairfield Police Department announced 14 arrests related to a Gaza ceasefire protest that blocked the entrance of Travis Air Force Base early Thursday morning.
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The Fairfield Police Department announced 14 arrests related to a Gaza ceasefire protest that blocked the entrance of Travis Air Force Base early Thursday morning.
"It was a night of hell. We haven't seen such bombing since the start of the war," one Gaza resident says.
Israel is pressing forward with its offensive in Gaza. Air strikes are shifting to the central part of the territory -- while hospitals overflow with patients. Michael George reports. (12/26/23)
Latest strikes could mean Israel is set to expand its ground offensive into a third section of Gaza, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to insist Hamas must be destroyed before the war can end.
Rescuers and hospital officials say Israeli strikes flattened two Gaza homes, killing more than 90 Palestinians, including dozens from an extended family.
The U.N. Security Council voted to speed up the process of delivering aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza and demand that all hostages held by Hamas be released immediately.
The word came as the U.N. reported more than half a million people in Gaza - a quarter of the population - are starving.
Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza rages, with the death toll reportedly nearing 20,000, amid hopes for new cease-fire negotiations.
San Francisco prosecutors have begun charging 80 protesters who last month snarled traffic for hours on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza.
San Francisco prosecutors on Monday began charging 80 protesters who last month blocked traffic for hours on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. Lezla Gooden reports.
Israeli forces say the biggest tunnel they've ever discovered, just 500 yards inside Gaza, reflects the challenges of hunting Hamas without harming hostages.
The Israeli military says it has excavated a large tunnel shaft in Gaza close to the major Erez crossing with Israel.
Israel's military said troops "mistakenly identified three Israeli hostages as a threat" and fired at them, killing the three hostages.
The San Francisco District Attorney's Office confirmed Friday that dozens of protesters who blocked the Bay Bridge last month as they called for a cease-fire in Gaza would face charges.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said 80 protesters who blocked the Bay Bridge as they called for a cease-fire in Gaza would face misdemeanor charges. Betty Yu reports. (12/15/23)
This wouldn't mean an end to combat operations, but a U.S. official said it would bring about lower levels of bombing in Gaza.
Police in San Jose are considering hate crime charges in two instances where banners showing support for Gaza were taken down.
Biden's warning over "indiscriminate bombing" in Gaza fails to slow Israel's bombardment, as Palestinians say they're facing a "war of starvation."
U.N. aid agencies tell CBS News the "suffering of the children in Gaza" is unmatched as Israel pounds the Palestinian territory in its raging war with Hamas.
Battles are raging across Gaza as Israel indicates it is prepared to fight for months or longer to defeat the territory's Hamas rulers.
Three Oakland cafe workers are no longer on the job following a confrontation this past week with a customer over anti-Semitic graffiti found in the coffee shop's bathroom.
In the week since cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas broke down, the Israeli military has shifted its focus to southern Gaza. A United Nations official warned the territory "is reaching the point of no return." CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports.
The United Nations warned that its aid operation in Gaza is "in tatters" because no place in the besieged enclave is safe.
"There's no telling how a commander of such an organization will behave," former elite commander says.
Amid rising tensions over the conflict in Gaza, houses of worship in the Bay Area and across the country are being warned by federal officials to boost their security measures.
