al jazeeraHamas sends a delegation to Egypt for further ceasefire talks in a new sign of progress amid attempts by international mediators to hammer out an agreement.
President Joe Biden defends the right to protest but insists “order must prevail” as college campuses across the country face unrest over the war in Gaza.
Five people, including a child, were killed in an Israeli air raid that hit a group of people in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.
At least 34,596 Palestinians have been killed and 77,816 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive.
A New York police officer fired his gun while inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall during an operation to clear antiwar protesters, a spokesperson for district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office has confirmed.
The spokesperson, Doug Cohen, said no one was injured and that other police officers but not students were in the immediate vicinity at the time.
A review of the incident is being conducted, The Associated Press news agency reports, while the New York Police Department did not immediately comment on the incident.
More than 100 protesters were taken into custody when police stormed the university’s Hamilton Hall on Tuesday, which had been occupied for more than 20 hours by pro-Palestine protesters who renamed the building Hind’s Hall in memory of the six-year-old Palestinian girl, Hind Rajab, who was slain by Israeli forces in Gaza in January along with six family members.
Police in Portland said they detained a driver who accelerated his vehicle towards pro-Palestine demonstrators on the campus of Portland State University in Oregon and then ran off spraying what appeared to be pepper spray towards those who confronted him after the incident.
People screamed as the vehicle accelerated towards the crowd, The Associated Press news agency reports, but the driver braked at the last minute.
The driver then exited his vehicle and fled while aiming what appeared to be pepper spray towards those trying to catch him.
Police said they found the driver later and he was taken to hospital on a police mental health detention order.
Demonstrators later damaged the car, smashing in windows and spray painting “Free Gaza” on it.
The Israeli military has bombed a house in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, killing six people, the Wafa news agency reports.
Several more people have been wounded in the attack, which struck the city’s al-Zuhur neighbourhood.
Several people have also been injured after an Israeli bomb struck a house in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood, west of Rafah, while nine people were injured in a bombing targeting the Bureij camp in central Gaza.
Gaza’s journalists have been named the winners of the 2024 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for their coverage of Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory, the UN’s cultural agency said in a statement.
Established in 1997, the annual prize “honours an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger”, UNESCO said.
“In these times of darkness and hopelessness, we wish to share a strong message of solidarity and recognition to those Palestinian journalists who are covering this crisis in such dramatic circumstances,” said Mauricio Weibel, chair of the international jury of media professionals, who recommended the winners of the prize.
The Committee to Protect Journalists said on May 1 that, according to preliminary investigations, at least 97 journalists and media workers are among the more than 35,000 killed since the war on Gaza began on October 7.
The dead included 92 Palestinian, two Israeli, and three Lebanese journalists.
The Premier of Quebec Francois Legault has called on police to dismantle a pro-Palestine encampment on the McGill University campus in Montreal.
The McGill University administration has also called on police to remove the dozens of tents that have been set up on the campus since Saturday.
Montreal police spokesman Jean-Pierre Brabant has said his forces are “still evaluating” the situation and said it is not in the interests of the police or the city of Montreal to immediately intervene in a peaceful protest.
Student-led protests have spread from the US to Canada in recent days. Pro-Palestine camps have been erected across some of Canada’s largest universities, with activists demanding they divest from groups conducting business with Israel.
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