Cnn newsroom. Hi everyone. Im just dean in washington and we begin with breaking new cnn, his warned the Biden Administration has paused a shipment all of us made ammunition to israel it appears to be the first time the us has stumped a Weapon Shipment to the Israeli Military since the october 7 hamas attacks and it comes amid growing tensions between the us and israel over the war in gaza. And during highstakes negotiations to reach a potential ceasefire and hostage deal with lets get right over to cnns priscilla alvarez, whos here with us percival, what more are you learning about all this . Well, a source, it could not disclosed why the decision was made to pause this particular shipment. But two important points here, it is not linked to what is believed to israels potential Ground Invasion of rafah. Thats in the Southern Gaza strip were more than 1 million filling in palestinians have been sheltering and has been a concern for the us if israel were to move in and continue that ope
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Everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday on Fredricka Whitfield are we begin this hour with College Campuses . On edge bracing for propalestinian protests. As many schools across the country hold Commencement Ceremonies this weekend. A demonstration already causing a disruption im sure Nothing University of michigan protesters interrupted a Graduation Ceremony at the school of music, theater and dance last night. Meantime, the university of Southern California announced it is holding a small family graduate celebration, one week after canceling the main Graduation Ceremony over safety concerns protests that engulfed schools for weeks have resulted in the arrests of more than 2,100 people on about 40 separate campuses in 20 five states. Cnns whitney wild is at the University Of Michigan on that campus, and whitney, weve already seen a disruption at a ceremony there last night. What but are the expectations there today well, its interesting. Frederica, the graduation here
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And for the thousands of protesters across the country their reasons for demonstrating vary. This is for the people of palestine and were going to draft an agreement that is best that shows them we have not given up. I think its important that students and everyone know that the Jewish Community is not were not going to give into Anti Semitism. Especially as a jewish student with members of my family. Who died in the holocaust, i want to do everything i can to protest against this genocide that is happening against palestinians. We are all here as intelligent people who have autonomy to and we have a lot of privilege in being able to stand up and do what we love and stand up and protect the community we think deserves rejection. Even though i graduate in a week, i dont think this is going to end for me as a story. They dont want it to end for me as a story. This is truly an Intergenerational Movement and that is part of the reason why i think it is time to listen. I think is only a mat