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A leading humanitarian monitoring system warned Monday that half of Gaza’s population is at “imminent” risk of famine.  The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a food security index partnered with prominent government and aid groups like the United Nations, the European Union, and USAID. On Monday, the IPC issued a special brief analyzing the nutritional situation in Gaza, where the ongoing war between Hamas militants and Israel has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians, internally displaced…

Jonathan Glazer, the director of Auschwitz-set film The Zone of Interest, won applause at the Academy Awards for an acceptance speech in which he lamented the war in Gaza. 'We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people,' he said Jonathan Glazer, the director…

A demonstration on Sunset Boulevard started off an awards show filled with nods to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict The 2024 Academy Awards got to a late start on Sunday, after hundreds of protestors shut down a section of Sunset Boulevard— starting off an awards show filled with nods to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. Pro-Palestinian protestors reportedly blocked Sunset Boulevard with Palestinian flags and signs, some including some that said “No awards for genocide” and “Lives have…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not abide President Joe Biden‘s “red line” warning not to invade Rafah in Gaza, where more than a million Palestinians have sought refuge from the ongoing assault. “We’ll go there. We’re not going to leave. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is, that Oct. 7 doesn’t happen again. Never happens again,” Netanyahu said Sunday, according to Politico. Biden and his administration have urged Israel not to invade or launch a major offensive on Rafah…

Celebrities including Billie Eilish and Ramy Youssef and many more showed up to the red carpet for the 96th Academy Awards wearing red pins in support of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as a protest delayed stars’ arrivals.“We’re all calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We’re calling for the safety of everyone involved. We really want lasting justice and peace for the Palestinian people,” Youssef said during a red carpet interview. “We really just want to say, ‘let’s just stop killing children.’…

Little red buttons have been popping up on red carpet outfits at a variety of recent awards events. Perhaps most prominently, all three members of the band Boygenius wore them as they picked up three recent Grammy awards. And “Bottoms” filmmaker Emma Seligman wore one at the Spirit Awards.The buttons represent the group Artists4Ceasefire, which, within a few weeks of Hamas militants’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the current conflict in the region, had published an open letter signed by hundreds of celebrities…

By Jake Coyle, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stars are arriving at the 96th Academy Awards, where protests over Israel’s war in Gaza are taking place near the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Scattered demonstrations were held in the vicinity around the Oscars on Sunday. Los Angeles police, which had expected protests, beefed up their already extensive presence. The Dolby Theatre and the red carpet leading into it are cordoned off for several blocks in every direction, though protesters disrupted traffic for some…

About a thousand protesters converged on Hollywood on Sunday ahead of the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony to call for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered about 1 p.m. at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Ivar Avenue, a few blocks east of the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, where the Oscars ceremony is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. People were already arriving on the red carpet rolled out in front of the theater. An Israel supporter stands on the…

Demonstrators demanding a cease-fire made their presence felt as the president addressed the nation As President Joe Biden prepared for his pivotal 2024 State of the Union on Thursday, protestors demanding a ceasefire in Gaza gathered outside the White House and near the Capitol. The protests forced Biden’s motorcade to take an alternate route from the White House to the Capitol, CNN reported. The pool traveling with the president said he took “the long way” to the Capitol, avoiding a large…

Rep. Adam Schiff succeeded on two fronts Tuesday night, winning the California Senate primary and ensuring that the Republican opponent his campaign propped up with millions of dollars defeated progressive Democrat Katie Porter. But if Schiff (D-Calif.) thought his election night would be smooth sailing, he got a surprise when he took to the stage at Hollywood’s Avalon Theater.  As Schiff attempted to deliver his planned victory speech, protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza — where more than 30,000…