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But protestors drowned out his speech as they denounced him for his lack of support for a Gaza ceasefire resolution at city council.
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The District 8 representative had been one of three city council members to sign a joint memo calling for a special meeting on a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire and the return of all hostages in the Israel-Hamas War.
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The move could clear the way for a new long-term phase of war against Hamas. Israel has come under growing international pressure to scale back fighting, which has killed nearly 22,000 Palestinians.
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Asil Elashy spoke to TPR in early November about her family’s movements in Gaza and her attempts to help her mother, brother, and her brother’s family flee the Israeli bombing into Egypt. In late December, she provided an update on her family.
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The resolution’s language says it is “calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and return of all hostages immediately.” It requires a simple majority of the San Antonio City Council and Mayor Ron Nirenberg.
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UT Health San Antonio said the events would be better suited if registered student organizations held them, but the medical student who helped organize the event says she was told the series was too 'complex' and 'divisive.'
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Protestors singled out Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Leidos as 'war profiteers' who have helped to enable the Israeli military’s ongoing assault on the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 19,000 people.
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SAC’s student government and a majority of President Naydeen González-De Jesús’ senior executive team sent separate letters to Alamo Colleges District Chancellor Mike Flores declaring 'no confidence' in the president.
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The protest at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is the latest demonstration advocating for Palestinians in the region.
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Protestors marched in San Antonio as the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 15,000, the vast majority of whom have been identified as civilians. The conflict has resumed after the collapse of a temporary truce kept hostilities in Gaza lower than they had been since Oct. 7.