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Sunday afternoon a group assembled at Civic Center plaza to show unity with Israel and denounce the violence that continues to take lives along the Israeli-Gaza border. 

Thousands of people gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to march in support of Palestine in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. 

The 14th annual Silicon Valley African Film Festival is in full swing in San Jose.

Americans previously stuck in Israel are starting to return to the U.S. after flights were grounded there due to terrorist attacks about a week ago. Americans are being evacuated out of Israel to Germany and Greece, and then flown to American soil, the State Department said.

Palestinians scrambled to flee northern Gaza on Saturday after Israel ordered nearly half the population to flee south and carried out limited ground forays ahead of an  expected land offensive , as the war appeared set to escalate a week after Hamas'  bloody, wide-ranging attack into Israel.  

One wick at a time, a small group of faithful gathered to light candles at the Congregation Chevra Thilim in San Francisco, as Jewish people around the world do each Friday before sundown to usher in the Sabbath.

Organizers of a rally in the city's South of Market neighborhood by self-proclaimed anti-Zionist Jews who say they are opposed to Israeli air strikes and bombings in Gaza.

In the wake of a reported "Day of Jihad" threat by a former Hamas leader, less than a week after a surprise attack in Israel, there was a wide range of responses by Bay Area Hebrew schools.

The human toll of the Israel-Hamas war is heartbreaking for people on both sides of the conflict. 

The US State Department announced plans to begin chartering flights on Friday for Americans stranded in Israel.

The militant Hamas group in Gaza calls on Palestinians to stay in their homes after Israel orders mass evacuation.

Bay Area Jews and Palestinians fear they'll be targeted for reprisals due to ongoing Middle East war.

Local and federal officials are working to unravel the events that led up to a man crashing a car into the San Francisco Chinese consulate.

Local places of worship are offering prayers as families with Bay Area ties anxiously await updates on their loved ones.

The White House on Tuesday condemned a violent crash at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco where a man rammed a car into the lobby, creating a chaotic scene that ended with police shooting the driver, who later died at the hospital.