Hope for new Israel-Hamas cease-fire piles pressure on Netanyahu
With deaths mounting in Gaza and another Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal on the table, Netanyahu is under pressure from all sides.
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With deaths mounting in Gaza and another Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal on the table, Netanyahu is under pressure from all sides.
The student-driven protests in support of Palestinians in Gaza are gaining steam in the Bay Area, with San Francisco State joining other campuses by erecting its own protest encampment while receiving some vocal support from faculty members as well.
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up at many U.S. colleges following the arrest of more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University this month.
Pro-Palestinian protests have reached the campus of Sonoma State University, with students setting up a tent encampment and calling for an end to the violence in Gaza.
On Monday, while police confront protesters at university student actions over Israel's war in Gaza from Texas to New York, a sprawling student encampment at UC Berkeley has remained calm.
Team coverage of new protests over the war in Gaza springing up at college campuses as tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict grow.
Protesters at Sonoma State University have pitched dozens of tents on campus and were calling for an end to the violence in Gaza. Website: http://kpix.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kpixtv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KPIXtv
Thousands of Israelis again took to the streets this weekend, demanding their government strike a deal to bring home the remaining hostages being held by Hamas. Still, Israel continues to bombard Rafah ahead of an expected ground invasion. Debora Patta reports.
Hamas says it received the cease-fire proposal from Israel after a high-level Egyptian delegation wrapped up a visit to Israel.
Protesters nationwide are demanding that their schools divest from companies they say are enabling the Israel-Hamas war as officials say outside agitators "spew hate and antisemitism."
The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday released another propaganda video, which cannot be independently verified, showing two hostages, including 64-year-old Israeli-American Keith Siegel. The two were abducted by Hamas militants on Oct. 7. Debora Patta has more from Jerusalem.
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt announced Friday that all classes and school business will be conducted remotely for the rest of the semester amid a student occupation on campus protesting the ongoing war in Gaza.
The demands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators camped on the Stanford campus were challenged by a Jewish man who fled Iran as a child and thinks these protests are misguided. Kelsi Thorud reports. (4-26-24)
More than a hundred demonstrators camped on the Cal campus on Thursday continued their demands for a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment action by the university.
Hundreds of people have been arrested in California, New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Georgia and other states during the tense protests on college campuses.
More than a hundred demonstrators camped on the UC Berkeley campus are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment action by the university. José Martínez reports. (4-25-24)
A video released by Hamas' military wing appears to show U.S.-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin delivering a message under duress.
"He's ultimately responsible," former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Antisemitic chants and even threats against Jewish students have brought the tension of the Middle East onto U.S. college campuses.
For more than two months, Israel has threatened to send troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but even without such an operation, Rafah is under regular bombardment. Debora Patta reports from Jerusalem.
More than two dozen people have been arrested after groups of pro-Palestinian protesters calling for a cease fire in Gaza shut down both the Golden Gate Bridge and Interstate 880 in Oakland on Monday. Wilson Walker and Itay Hod report. Website: http://kpix.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kpixtv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KPIXtv
Israel says 99% of the missiles and drones launched by Iran in an overnight assault were downed by its air defenses, with help from its allies.
Americans in Israel have been warned to limit their travel as U.S. officials say Iran is expected to launch an attack on the country as soon as Friday.
President Biden sharpens his criticism of Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza, saying he doesn't "agree with his approach."
With Israeli troops out of southern Gaza, CBS News meets Palestinians returning to find "everything is destroyed."
