The new encampment comes as Israel and Hamas are engaged in an ongoing conflict in Gaza after Hamas attacked, killed, and kidnapped Israeli citizens in October.
With war raging in Gaza, a growing movement to support Palestinians on college campuses has now come to the University of Missouri-Kansas City or UMKC.
Israel's impending military operation in Rafah, the last remaining Hamas stronghold in Gaza, is to begin with an evacuation of civilians that could last up to five weeks, Israel's Kan radio reported on Thursday. In this first phase of the ground operation, civilians in the southern city near the Egyptian border will be moved to safer locations, the report said. Israel's allies and critics have for months implored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call off the invasion of Rafah, fearing mass c