A group called Brown Alumni for Palestine said in a news release Sunday that it led the disruption at the ceremony, where Paxson and the Brown Corporation were conferring diplomas to the graduating class.
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The coalition of students leading the encampment took down their tents and canopies on Wednesday night around 7:30 p.m. It was the most recent encampment at a Bay Area university to be disbanded after such camps began popping up last month.
Police arrested eight Pro-Palestinian protesters blocking an entrance to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo this past week, the university told the the San Luis Obispo Tribune after the demonstration.
Hamas fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza on Sunday that set off air raid sirens as far away as Tel Aviv for the first time in months. There were no immediate reports of casualties in what appeared to be the first long-range rocket attack from Gaza since January.
Protesters at universities across the country are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies they say are enabling the conflict.
The protest, which prompted the university to move classes online, was inspired by pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses across the United States.
U.S. says it’s reviewing new information about Israeli unit accused of abuses before the war in Gaza
The U.S. has determined that an Israeli military unit committed gross human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza began.
The attack follows an uptick in assaults launched by the Houthis in recent days after a relative lull in their monthslong campaign over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel on Friday with the hope of brokering a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza, two officials said.
As the war grinds through a sixth month, both Israel and Hamas have rejected international cease-fire efforts, each insisting its version of victory is within reach.
U.S. defense leaders met with Israeli counterparts and discussed a potential military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a Pentagon official said.
The strikes are among the deepest into Lebanon since the Israel-Hamas war began more than four months ago.
Aaron Bushnell, of San Antonio, Texas, had walked up to the Israeli Embassy and began livestreaming on the video streaming platform Twitch.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the army had presented to the War Cabinet its operational plan for Rafah.
“The court is acutely aware of the extent of the human tragedy that is unfolding in the region and is deeply concerned about the continuing loss of life and human suffering,” court President Joan E. Donoghue said.
