Or’s wife, Yonat, was killed in the October 7 Hamas attack, while two of their three children were abducted and then freed as part of the November ceasefire deal.
The predawn police crackdown at UCLA marked the latest flashpoint for mounting tensions on US college campuses, where protests over Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza.
The United States and Saudi Arabia are said to be nearing a pact that would offer the kingdom security guarantees and lay out a possible pathway to diplomatic ties with Israel if it brings the war in Gaza to an end.
President Gustavo Petro described Israel’s siege of Gaza as ‘genocide’. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused Petro of being ‘antisemitic and full of hate’.
Judges at the International Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled against issuing emergency orders to stop German arms exports to Israel, adding that they remained deeply concerned about conditions in Gaza.
Protesters barricaded the entrances of Hamilton Hall and unfurled a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Gaza war
The Israeli PM pledged on Tuesday to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the 7-month-long war.
The US and its allies are concerned that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials just as the country is getting closer to a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, potentially jeopardising a deal.
US and Israeli officials have said they hope to have the floating pier in place, the causeway attached to the shore and operations under way by early May.
UK foreign minister David Cameron said Hamas has been offered a 40-day ceasefire and the release of “potentially thousands” of Palestinian prisoners in return for freeing Israeli hostages.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also said Israel must still do more to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into besieged Gaza
Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai will include five parallel runways and 400 aircraft gates to handle up to 260 million passengers a year.
It’s the top US diplomat’s seventh Middle Eastern trip since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
US State Department said law, which imposes jail terms of up to 15 years for same-sex relations, ‘threatens those most at risk in Iraqi society’. UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron called law ‘dangerous’.
The White House said US President Joe Biden reiterated his ‘clear position’ as Israel plans to invade Rafah despite global concern for more than 1 million Palestinians sheltering there.
Mahmoud Abbas said such an invasion on the Gazan city, which is sheltering more than a million residents, would be ‘the biggest catastrophe in the history of the Palestinian people’.
Captives Keith Siegel and Omri Miran appear alive in the footage, which appeared to have been taken earlier this week.
The Yemen-based rebels say they hit the aircraft with a missile as part of a renewed series of assaults amid the Israel-Gaza war.
The militant group, which has insisted on a permanent ceasefire, said it would submit its response after examining the proposal.
An official with the UN Mine Action Service said unexploded ordnance buried in the rubble would complicate the clean-up operation.
The baby, named Rouh meaning Soul, suffered respiratory problems and a weak immune system, died on Thursday.