Pro-Palestine students occupy Columbia University&s Hamilton Hall as college begins suspensions

Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide.

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Residents of northern Israel told to stockpile food and medicine for possible all-out war with Hezbollah

Eli Harel was an Israeli soldier in his early 30s when he was sent into Lebanon in 2006 to battle fighters from the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah in a bloody, largely inconclusive, month-long war.

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Blinken urges Hamas to take new ‘generous temporary ceasefire deal&

The US&s top diplomat called on Hamas leadership to accept what he described as an &extraordinarily generous& temporary peace deal offered by Israel yesterday as he returned to the region and met with the area&s power players.

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US students view spreading Gaza?protests as their 1968 moment

Historical comparisons in the US between the mass protests of 1968 and today&s student demonstrations in solidarity with Gaza are both imperfect and hard to avoid.

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Israeli airstrikes kill at least 22 in Rafah, including 5-day-old baby; Hamas ‘has no major issues& with ceasefire proposals & source

Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children, Palestinian health officials said. One of the children killed in the strikes overnight into Monday was just five days old.

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‘Only US can stop this crime' & Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pleads with US to halt Israel&s imminent assault on Rafah

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has pleaded with the US to stop Israel attacking the Gaza border city of Rafah & saying he expects an assault to begin within days on an area where more than a million people have taken refuge.

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