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Universities of Wisconsin adopt viewpoint-neutral policy for college leaders
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin leaders must limit their public statements to matters that affect school operations and maintain neutral viewpoints under a new policy that system administrators released Friday. UW system spokesperson Mark Pitsch said in an email to The...
As war rages in Gaza, Israel’s crackdown on West Bank insurgency is killing Palestinian youths
JENIN, West Bank (AP) — In the web of battered, sunbaked streets winding up the hillside, bloodshed is as unrelenting as the heat. So it is not hard to see why, when raid sirens and gunfire erupted yet again on a morning in late May, 15-year-old Mahmoud Hamadneh turned his bike down an alley that...
Charges filed months after a pro-Palestinian camp was cleared at University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Authorities months later have filed charges against nine people who are accused of trespassing or resisting police during the May break-up of a pro-Palestinian camp at the University of Michigan. “The First Amendment does not provide a cover for illegal...
The Palestinian economy is in free fall and will require billions to rebuild, the UN says
GENEVA (AP) — The Palestinian economy is “in free fall,” the United Nations reported Thursday, with production in Gaza plunging to one-sixth of its level before Israeli forces began a blistering military response to the Oct. 7 attacks in the territory. The report from UN Trade...
Israeli airstrikes hit UN school and homes in Gaza and kill at least 34 people, hospitals say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight and Wednesday hit a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes, killing at least 34 people, including 19 women and children, hospital officials said. A U.N. official said six staffers were...
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israeli airstrikes on Palestinian territories kill dozens more
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed dozens more Palestinians on Wednesday, according to local officials. They said strikes on a U.N. school being used as a shelter and two homes killed at least 34 people, including 19 women and children. The Health Ministry says more than 41,000...
An Israeli strike on a Palestinian tent camp kills at least 19
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike hit a crowded Palestinian tent camp early Tuesday in Gaza, killing at least 19 people and wounding 60, Palestinian officials said. Israel said it targeted senior Hamas militants with precise munitions. The strike occurred in...
Israel says it likely killed an American activist by mistake. The US condemns its ally
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military said Tuesday an American activist killed in the West Bank last week was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by its soldiers, drawing a strong rebuke from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the activist's family. ...
Grief over Gaza and qualms over US election add up to anguish for many Palestinian Americans
Demoralized by the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, Palestinian American Samia Assed found in Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascension — and her running mate pick — “a little ray of hope.” That hope, she said, shattered during last month’s...
The UN chief calls the death and destruction in Gaza the worst he's seen
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief said Monday that the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and demanded an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure. Secretary-General António Guterres said in an interview...
