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Pro-Palestinian protesters hold placards as they take part in a demonstration in London, Saturday, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)

Hamas is reviewing an Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as a planned Rafah offensive looms

Hamas says it is reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza. And Egypt is intensifying efforts to broker a deal to end the war and stave off a planned Israeli ground offensive into the southern city of Rafah.
 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he prepares to return to the U.S. following a visit to China, Friday, April 26, 2024, at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Top diplomat Blinken will visit the Mideast again this coming week. What can he achieve this time?

 
Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of an UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

UN investigators probe 14 Gaza aid staffers Israel had tied to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack

 
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in China, Friday, April 26, 2024, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

US postpones decision on aid to Israeli army battalion accused of abuses against Palestinians

 
FILE - A Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Sunday, April 21, 2024. A premature Palestinian infant, rescued from her mother's womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, has died, her uncle said Friday, April 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh, File)

Premature baby girl rescued from her dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza after 5 days in an incubator

 

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People protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

A top Qatari official urges Israel and Hamas to do more to reach a cease-fire deal

A senior Qatari official has urged both Israel and Hamas to show “more commitment and more seriousness” in cease-fire negotiations.
 
Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters attempting to camp on Washington University's campus, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in St. Louis, Mo. (Christine Tannous/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)

Campus anti-war protesters dig in from New York to California as universities and police take action

Student anti-war protesters at U.S. college campuses are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while some universities have moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters.
 
Georgia State Patrol officers detain a demonstrator on the campus of Emory University during a pro-Palestinian demonstration, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them

Hundreds of students around the country are being arrested, suspended, put on probation and, in rare cases, expelled from their colleges for participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
 
President Joe Biden, right, introduces host Colin Jost at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Chants of ‘shame on you’ greet guests at White House correspondents’ dinner shadowed by war in Gaza

A glitzy election-year roast by President Joe Biden drew journalists, celebrities and politicians — but also hundreds of protesters against the war in Gaza.
 
Graduating seniors take photos around the Tommy Trojan statue on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, Thursday, April 25, 2024. The university canceled its main graduation ceremony Thursday and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

USC president makes her first remarks over recent campus controversies on Israel-Hamas war

The University of Southern California’s president has called recent controversies roiling the campus over the Israel-Hamas war “incredibly difficult for all of us.”
 
This still image from video provided by ALMasirah TV shows wreckage from unmanned aircraft in Yemen, on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed shooting down another of the U.S. military’s drones. They aired footage Saturday of parts that corresponded to known pieces of the unmanned aircraft. The U.S. military acknowledged to The Associated Press that “a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 drone crashed in Yemen.” It said an investigation is underway. ( ALMasirah TV via AP)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim downing US Reaper drone, release footage showing wreckage of aircraft

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed shooting down another of the U.S. military’s MQ-9 Reaper drones. They aired footage Saturday of parts that corresponded to known pieces of the unmanned aircraft.
 
This satellite picture taken by Planet Labs PBC show the construction of a new aid port near Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. A new port is being built in the Gaza Strip ahead of a U.S. military-led operation to surge needed food and other aid into the besieged enclave as Israel's war on Hamas there grinds on, according to satellite images analyzed by Thursday, April 25, 2024, by The Associated Press. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

British troops may be tasked with delivering Gaza aid, BBC report says

The BBC is reporting that British troops may be tasked with delivering aid to Gaza from an offshore pier now under construction by the U.S. military.
 
A Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, Saturday, April 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Anti-war protesters dig in as some schools close encampments after reports of antisemitic activity

Student anti-war protesters at U.S. college campuses are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, some universities moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters.
 
A recent graduate wears a garment with their graduation year on the University of Southern California campus Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony Thursday. College officials across the U.S. are worried the ongoing Israel-Hamas war protests could disrupt plans for commencement ceremonies next month. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Class of 2024 reflects on college years marked by COVID-19, protests and life’s lost milestones

For many in the graduating class of 2024, the unrest at campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war has marked an emotional end to their college experiences that started amid a pandemic.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damage Panama-flagged oil tanker in Red Sea

Ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels caused “minor damage” to a Panama-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea.
 
Students block the Sciences-Po university Friday, April 26, 2024 in Paris. Students at a prestigious university resumed pro-Palestinian protests on Friday, days after French police broke up a demonstration, inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses around the United States. Dozens of students the Sciences-Po university blocked an entrance to a campus building in central Paris with chairs and bikes. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Schaeffer)

Students at prestigious Paris university occupy campus building in pro-Palestinian protest

Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States have blocked access to a campus building at a prestigious French university, prompting administrators to move all classes online.
 
Palestinians spend the day on the beach along the Mediterranean Sea during a heatwave in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 25, 2024. Over 80% of Gaza's population has been displaced by the ongoing war with Israel, and many have relocated to the area. Temperatures hovered near 37 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Egypt sends delegation to Israel, its latest effort to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas

Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel with the hope of brokering a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza.
 
A protester gestures as she is carried to a police car after blocking a road along with a delegation of American and Israeli rabbis from Rabbis for Ceasefire marching towards the Erez crossing to the Gaza Strip with food aid for Gaza civilians and to call for a ceasefire, in southern Israel, Friday, April 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

The Latest | Israeli drone strike kills 2 in Lebanon after Hezbollah fires at an Israeli convoy

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli drone strike on a car in the eastern part of the country has killed two people.
 
Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leaves State Supreme Court in New York, on Thursday, April 25, 2024, during his trial on charges of allegedly falsifying business records. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Trump downplays deadly Charlottesville rally by comparing it to campus protests over Gaza war

Donald Trump on Thursday claimed a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was “nothing” compared to the college campus protests that have sparked around the country over the Israel-Hamas war.
 
Khalil al-Hayya, a high-ranking Hamas official who has represented the Palestinian militant group in negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage exchange deal, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas again raises the possibility of a 2-state compromise. Israel and its allies aren’t convinced

The Palestinian militant group Hamas has said for more than 15 years that it could accept a two-state compromise with Israel — at least, a temporary one.
 
A sign that reads, Gaza Solidarity Encampment, is seen during the Pro-Palestinians protest at the Columbia University campus in New York, Monday April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

Carefully planned and partly improvised: inside the Columbia protest that fueled a national movement

Israel-Hamas war demonstrations that began at Columbia University last week have spawned a nationwide movement. How did they begin?
 
This photo provided by the Counter Terrorism Police North East on Thursday, April 25, 2024 shows Ahmed Alid. An asylum seeker from Morocco who went on a vicious rampage following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that triggered the Israel-Hamas war has been convicted of murder for stabbing a 70-year-old man in the streets of an English seaside town. Ahmed Alid was convicted Thursday in Teesside Crown Court of stabbing Terence Carney six times on Oct. 15 in Hartlepool. He was also convicted of attempted murder for hacking at his housemate and for assaulting two police officers. (Counter Terrorism Police North East via AP)

Asylum seeker who killed British retiree says he was seeking revenge for the people of Gaza

LONDON (AP) — An asylum seeker from Morocco who went on a vicious rampage following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that triggered the Israel-Hamas war was convicted Thursday of murder for stabbing a 70-year-old man in the streets of an English seaside town.
 
General Robert Brieger, chairman of the EU's Military Committee talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting with the Cyprus national guard chief Georgios Tsitsikostas at the Defense Ministry in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The European Union's top military official says a frigate that's part of an EU military mission in the Red Sea to protect merchant shipping has destroyed a drone launched from an area in Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels. Brieger said the downing of the drone took place Thursday morning. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

EU military officer says a frigate has destroyed a drone launched from Yemen’s Houthi-held areas

A top European Union top military officer says a frigate that’s part of an EU mission in the Red Sea to protect merchant shipping has destroyed a drone launched from an area in Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels.
 
In this photo provided by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), members of the HMS Diamond's Bridge team shoot down a missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis from Yemen, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired a large barrage of drones and missiles targeting shipping in the Red Sea Wednesday. (LPhot Chris Sellars/MoD Crown via AP)

Ship comes under attack off coast of Yemen as Houthi rebel campaign appears to gain new speed

A ship traveling in the Gulf of Aden has come under attack, the latest assault carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
 
Palestinians spend the day on the beach along the Mediterranean Sea during a heatwave in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, April 25, 2024. Over 80% of Gaza's population has been displaced by the ongoing war with Israel, and many have relocated to the area. Temperatures hovered near 37 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

The Latest | Israeli strikes in Rafah kill at least 5 as ship comes under attack in the Gulf of Aden

Palestinian hospital officials said Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip killed at least five people.
 
A woman is arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Austin. (Austin American-Statesman via AP)

USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow

The University of Southern California has canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more students were arrested on other campuses as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
 
Khalil al-Hayya, a high-ranking Hamas official who has represented the Palestinian militant group in negotiations for a cease-fire and hostage exchange deal, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established

A top Hamas political official has told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a five-year truce with Israel and that it will lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.
 
Chef Jose Andres, founder of the American NGO World Central Kitchen, speaks during the World Central Kitchen's memorial service at the National Cathedral, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Washington. The memorial service is honoring seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza this month. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Chef José Andrés says aid workers killed by Israeli airstrikes represented the ‘best of humanity’

The founder of World Central Kitchen says the seven aid workers killed by Israeli airstrikes represented the “best of humanity.”
 
Israeli honor guard soldiers salute during the funeral Israeli reserve Major Dor Zimel in Even Yehuda, Israel, Monday, April 22, 2024. Zimel , 27, died of his wounds after Iran-backed Lebanese militant Hezbollah group fired a volley of rockets and drones on northern Israel on April 17. The attack wounded at least 14 Israeli soldiers, six seriously, the army said. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Another ex-State Department official alleges Israeli military gets ‘special treatment’ on abuses

A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance says he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from U.S. officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of military abuses of Pale
 
FILE - People walk past an image of 4-year-old Abigail Edan, a hostage held by Hamas, projected onto a building in Tel Aviv, Nov 26, 2023. Edan's parents were both killed by Hamas militants in the same attack in which she was kidnapped, a cross-border assault Oct. 7 that prompted Israel to declare war on Hamas. President Joe Biden has met at the White House with Abigail Edan. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Biden meets 4-year-old Abigail Edan, an American who was held hostage by Hamas

President Joe Biden has met at the White House with Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American girl who was held hostage in Gaza for several weeks at the start of Israel’s war with Hamas.
 
FILE - A poster depicting Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is displayed in Re'im, southern Israel at the Gaza border, Feb. 26, 2024, at a memorial site for the Nova music festival site where he was kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Hamas on Wednesday, April 24, 2023, released a recorded video of an Israeli American still being held by the group. The video was the first sign of life of Hersh Goldberg-Polin since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. It was not clear when the video was taken. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Hamas releases video showing well-known Israeli-American hostage

Hamas has released a hostage video showing a well-known Israeli-American who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

US coalition warship shoots down missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels over the Gulf of Aden

A warship — part of a U.S.-led coalition protecting shipping in the Mideast — intercepted an anti-ship ballistic missile fired over the Gulf of Aden.
 
President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says the US is rushing weaponry to Ukraine as he signs a $95 billion war aid measure into law

President Joe Biden says he’s immediately rushing badly needed weaponry to Ukraine now that he’s signed into law a $95 billion war aid measure that also includes assistance for Israel, Taiwan and other allies.
 
Friends and supporters of Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, protest outside of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence to demand a deal for the immediate release of all hostages, after Hamas released a video of Goldberg-Polin, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

The Latest | Germany will resume working with UN relief agency for Palestinians after a review

Germany says that it plans to follow several other countries in resuming cooperation with the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians in Gaza after the publication of an independent review of its neutrality.
 
University of Texas police officers arrest a man at a pro-Palestinian protest on campus, Wednesday April 24, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Dozens arrested on California campus after students in Texas detained as Gaza war protests persist

Police began peacefully arresting pro-Palestinian student protesters at the University of Southern California Wednesday evening without incident.