The pro-Palestinian encampment at the UC Irvine took over a vacant building, leading to heavy-handed police response and nearly 50 people arrested

To counteract an effort by right-wing activists to prevent aid trucks from reaching Gaza, Standing Together plans to form a buffer zone and hopes police will help maintain the peace

The Israeli army announced that the body 53-year-old Binyamin, a father of two whose fate was undetermined since October 7, was retrieved Friday along with those of hostages Shani Louk, Amit Buskila, and Itzhak Gelerenter

Sgt. Ben Avishay, 20, from the northern Israeli city of Nahariya, was killed during a confrontation with terrorists in Jabalya. He is the 628th fallen soldier since October 7

According to the Israeli army, the targeted building was used as an operational war room

IDF Spokesperson: Bodies of three hostages were retrieved by IDF from Gaza ■ IDF: Sgt. Ben Avishay, 20, from Nahariya, was killed in combat in Gaza's north. ■ Hamas: U.S.-built pier off the Gaza Strip is no alternative to opening all land crossings under Palestinian supervision ■ IDF says it killed Sharhabil al-Sayed, atop militant in the Jamaa al-Islamiya terror org. in Lebanon ■ Spanish PM says Madrid would only recognize a Palestinian state in a joint action with other countries

A disproportionately high number of Israeli soldiers serving and dying in Gaza are of Ethiopian descent. Some feel that the war has become a sort of entry ticket into Israeli society – but at what price?

Rawyah Handaqlu, head of an emergency body created to contend with the tidal wave of crime and violence engulfing Arab society, talks about what it's like to live in a society in which criminal organizations have superseded the state