At least 20 U.S. medics trapped in Gaza
A group of American doctors who are stuck in Gaza say they were scheduled to leave Monday, but were told there was no longer a safe way out. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports.
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A group of American doctors who are stuck in Gaza say they were scheduled to leave Monday, but were told there was no longer a safe way out. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reports.
Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip have started rolling across a newly-built U.S. floating pier into the besieged enclave for the first time.
Chicago police said a man and woman were arrested outside the encampment for obstruction of traffic.
The U.S. military says it's installed the temporary pier that will be used to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza, and trucks carrying the aid should begin "moving ashore in the coming days."
The U.S. military said Thursday it finished installing the pieces of a temporary pier in Gaza. The floating dock will transport humanitarian aid from the Mediterranean Sea. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab has the latest.
A coalition of pro-Palestinian activists is vowing to march without a permit during August's Democratic National Convention in Chicago. In 1968, demonstrators protested the DNC, also held in Chicago that year, over U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Puck reporter Peter Hamby joins "America Decides" to discuss if history could repeat itself at the summer convention.
The U.S. military has completed construction on a makeshift pier that will be used to get desperately needed humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, several U.S. medics who traveled to Gaza to provide emergency medical care are now trapped there, with all crossings in and out of the territory closed. Some of them spoke to Imtiaz Tyab on Thursday.
As the Israeli defense chief says his troops shouldn't take over Gaza after the war, mistaken tank fire kills 5 of the IDF's own.
Battles are raging in northern and southern Gaza as Israel's military closes in on the southernmost city of Rafah, where thousands of Palestinians sought refuge after being displaced. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab breaks down the latest in the Israel-Hamas war.
Police have cleared a lecture hall at the University of California-Irvine after hundreds of protesters occupied the building for several hours Wednesday. Officers dismantled an encampment and barricades while detaining some of the protesters. CBS News Los Angeles reporter Tina Patel has more.
A floating pier for the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid has been completed off the shore of Gaza, the U.S. military says. CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd has more on that and the threats Israel has been facing from Iranian proxies in the Middle East.
A judge has decided that a Southern California college professor will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter and battery in the death of a Jewish counter-protester during demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war last year.
Many high school seniors in 2020 never got to participate in a big graduation ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, four years later, caution about protests over the war in Gaza means some won't get a college ceremony either. CBS News' Meg Oliver reports on the "no graduation" generation.
Between dual overseas wars, rising competition with China and a struggle to find consensus on southern border policy, the next president will be tasked with handling many homeland security issues. CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd joins to discuss some of the major challenges the winner of the November election will face.
Tensions are growing in the Democratic Party as the Israel divide deepens. What can the party do to win over young voters and progressives as the war with Hamas rages on? Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California joins "America Decides" to discuss.
Robert Fico, prime minister of Slovakia, is in life-threatening condition after being shot multiple times Wednesday. Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesperson for the State Department, joins "America Decides" to discuss the U.S. response and the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars.
More than 700,000 Palestinians were displaced when modern Israel was formed. 76 years later, the war in Gaza has displaced twice as many.
The Biden administration is planning to send $1 billion in weapons to Israel if Congress approves, sources tell CBS News. CBS News White House reporter Willie James Inman reports on that, and CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab has the latest on demonstrations in the West Bank observing the Nakba, the annual remembrance of Palestinians who were displaced in 1948 when the modern state of Israel was created.
The move comes days after the U.S. withheld shipments of certain munitions to Israel over concerns about a ground offensive in the Gaza city of Rafah.
More Palestinians are fleeing the southern Gaza city of Rafah ahead of a possible Israeli ground offensive. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab is in Tel Aviv with the latest.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled the southern Gaza city of Rafah ahead of a long-awaited ground operation by Israel's military. Amid the ongoing war, an American doctor stuck in Gaza says President Biden isn't doing enough to stop the fighting. Imtiaz Tyab reports.
Israeli forces forged deeper into Rafah on Tuesday, raising fears of more civilian casualties in the Israel-Hamas war. Apprehensions of a more intense military push come amid word that a team of international doctors, including several Americans, are trapped in a hospital near the city. Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth joins "America Decides" to discuss.
As teenagers increasingly get their news from social media, teaching about the Israel-Hamas war can be difficult amid a sea of misinformation.
Almost half a million Palestinians have fled the Rafah area in the past week, according to the United Nations, as Israel's military presence in the region continues to increase. CBS News foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab has more.
Right-wing Israeli activists in the Wests Bank attack a convoy carrying food to Gaza as a U.N. worker is killed in Rafah.