Middle East
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says his government will break diplomatic relations with Israel, describing the siege of Gaza as “genocide.”
Dueling groups of protesters clashed at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another.
The Biden White House has pursued a “cold shoulder strategy for its own base and all Americans who want to see an end to this war,” the group said.
On April 30, 1968, police flooded onto Columbia University's campus to end a demonstration students had staged — a scene that was eerily repeated 56 years later.
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The alleged comments are not the first time that far-right Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for executing Palestinian captives to manage overcrowding in prisons.
Tent encampments of protesters have spread across campuses nationwide in a student movement unlike any other this century.
The secretary of state's comments come after President Joe Biden demanded Israel allow a larger, sustained flow of humanitarian assistance for Palestinians.
The International Court of Justice said the request, which also asked for Germany to renew UNRWA funding, did not meet the legal conditions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to launch an incursion into a Gaza city sheltering hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
The United States is stepping up pressure for a cease-fire deal in Gaza.