As police cracked down on anti-war protests on college campuses across the US in recent weeks, among those arrested were a pair of silver-haired 65-year-old professors armed only with their cell phones.

Annelise Orleck was knocked to the ground and restrained with plastic handcuffs at a protest at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. She later complained of whiplash.

Steve Tamari was tackled by officers and taken into custody at a demonstration at Washington University in St. Louis, an attack he said resulted in multiple broken ribs and a broken hand.

Orleck and Tamari are among at least 50 professors arrested at campus protests across the country, according to a CNN review of police records, court filings, and news reports. (Since April 18, more than 2,400 students have been arrested amid protests on more than 50 campuses.) In some cases, professors said they were actively participating in protests based on their own beliefs. Others said they attended to show support for their students.

This shutdown comes amid a sweeping crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism in Jordan that has seen hundreds of people arbitrarily detained by security forces since 7 October.

According to Amnesty International, Jordanian authorities have arrested at least 1,500 people since October, with 500 detained since March following huge protests outside the Israeli embassy in Amman.

Video footage of the protests revealed Jordanian police violently dispersing demonstrators using batons and tear gas.

According to the detainees' lawyers, dozens remain in pre-trial detention, with at least 21 held in illegal administrative detention, despite the public prosecutor allowing their release.

Klein was at the location, and even took part in the opening portion of the dress rehearsal. Israeli-born Luxembourg contestant Tali Golergant performed fourth during Friday's rehearsal in Malmo, Sweden. Klein was supposed to take part after, but the EBU moved on to the next contestant, Israeli Eden Golan. As time went on, rumors began to circulate that Klein was blocked from taking part in the rehersal on Friday afternoon either because of a brief incident with Golan during the press conference after the Thursday semi-final, another momentary confrontation with her entourage on Friday, or an unrelated problem back stage.

The EBU has been criticized over Golan's participation, with protestors saying that it was an attempt to use culture to distract people from Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which has resulted in extensive civilian casualties and vast destruction. A Polish journalist raised the issue during the press conference that immediately followed the semi-final, asking Golan, "Have you ever thought that by being here, you bring risk and danger for other participants and [the] public?"

The host of the media event, Swedish journalist Jovan Radomir, told Golan she did not have to answer the question. "Why not?" exclaimed Klein? He had a Dutch flag wrapped around his head at the moment, as Golan defended her participation in the competition and safety and security at the event.

But sources told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that Klein's Friday afternoon suspension was due to a different incident. Another video surfaced from Israeli television personality Dov Gil-Har, where he was accused of trying to pester Klein to provoke a response. He posted a video he shot of himself backstage, shouting, "Mr. Klein, where were you? We missed you on stage?"

The United Nations General Assembly has voted in favour of granting "new rights and privileges" to the state of Palestine, paving a pathway for full UN-member status.

At Friday's emergency session at the 49th meeting of the UN General Assembly, 143 countries voted in favour of upgrading Palestine's status at the United Nations, with nine voting against and 25 abstentions.

Israel and the US voted against the resolution.

Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said on Monday, that if the measure was approved, he expected the US to cut funding to the United Nations and its institutions, in accordance with American law.

Amid growing U.S. concerns about the humanitarian situation in Rafah, the Israeli security cabinet approved last night the "expansion of the area of ​​operation" of the Israel Defense Forces in the southern Gaza city, according to three sources with knowledge of the details.

The big picture: President Biden said this week said if Israel invades Rafah, where more than one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering, the U.S. will stop supplying it with artillery shells, bombs for fighter jets and other offensive weapons.

Amid growing U.S. concerns about the humanitarian situation in Rafah, the Israeli security cabinet approved last night the "expansion of the area of ​​operation" of the Israel Defense Forces in the southern Gaza city, according to three sources with knowledge of the details.

The big picture: President Biden said this week said if Israel invades Rafah, where more than one million displaced Palestinians are sheltering, the U.S. will stop supplying it with artillery shells, bombs for fighter jets and other offensive weapons.

Note the israeli police being fully present and supporting this.

An FBI informant who infiltrated al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked networks in Syria and Turkey has been released from prison in Florida after serving a reduced sentence for threatening his handlers.

Kamran Faridi, whose work for the FBI included renting an Istanbul safehouse where alleged IS suspects were arrested in a high-profile Turkish police raid in 2015, was freed last month after more than four years in prison.

Faridi, who grew up in Karachi, migrated to the US in the early 1990s and was recruited by the FBI as a full-time informant in 1996 after infiltrating an Urdu-speaking crime gang in Atlanta.

In 2001, following al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks, he joined the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York and travelled the world infiltrating al-Qaeda networks in southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South America.

But his FBI career appears to have ended abruptly in early 2020 following disagreements with his handlers about an operation targeting Jabir Motiwala, a Karachi businessman who was then held in the UK on a US arrest warrant accusing him of links to a South Asian crime gang.

Legal documents relating to Motiwala’s extradition hearings in the UK obtained by MEE revealed that FBI informants were involved in trafficking shipments of heroin from Karachi to the US as part of an alleged plot to frame Motiwala.

Faridi confirmed he was one of those informants. He told MEE he had also been ordered to fabricate evidence against Motiwala but had refused to do so.

He believes he was arrested and jailed not because of the messages he had sent to his handlers but because he had threatened to reveal details of FBI investigative methods that the bureau did not want to be publicised.

“I was about to disclose their dirty laundry. They had to save their own,” he said.

“At the end of the day, I am a Pakistani third-class citizen from a third world country. They threw me away.”

A Belgian broadcaster interrupted its coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Thursday night to display a protest message condemning Israel's war on Gaza. In an act organised by a trade union, the screen briefly went black ahead of the semi-final coverage on VRT, Belgium's public-service broadcaster in Flemish.

It then aired the message: "This is a union action. We condemn the human rights violations by the state of Israel. Moreover, the state of Israel destroys press freedom. Therefore, we are interrupting the broadcast momentarily."

The message concluded with the hashtags "CeasefireNow" and "StopGenocide".

A spokesperson for VRT told Belgian media that the broadcaster was aware the action would take place. "We were informed that it would happen. Trade unions have the right to take action and do not need permission for it. I can only confirm that we have taken note of the action," said spokesperson Yasmine Van der Borght.

A third mass grave has been discovered in the ruins of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital, the largest medical complex in the Palestinian enclave.

At least 49 bodies have been recovered so far from the mass grave, the government media office in Gaza said on Wednesday.

"Government crews are still recovering more bodies until now," it said. "The exhumation operations have not finished, and we expect to find dozens of new bodies."

Gaza's government media office said 400 people were killed by Israeli forces in al-Shifa, including "wounded, sick, and displaced people". It said hundreds of people were still missing.

"Some of these bodies were found in pieces, some of these bodies were found without heads," Motassem Salah, director of the health ministry's emergency operations centre, told reporters on Wednesday.

The UK government has revoked the student visa of a Palestinian student who lost relatives in Gaza after she spoke at a demonstration at the University of Manchester.

Dana Abuqamar, a law student who heads the Friends of Palestine Society at the University of Manchester, said the UK government revoked her visa on “national security” grounds, after claiming she was a risk to public safety.

“The claim they are making is baseless and violates my rights as a resident here in the UK. My legal team has lodged a human rights appeal against this decision to revoke my student visa in my last and final year as a law student,” Abuqamar said, speaking to Al Jazeera English, confirming that her visa had been revoked.

Last year, Abuqamar revealed that she had lost at least 15 relatives in Gaza after the Israeli army bombed a three-storey building in the besieged enclave.

Hundreds of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Israel began military action against Hamas, satellite analysis by BBC Verify has found. Damage to a major supplies depot has also severely disrupted repairs. The lack of clean water and flows of untreated sewage pose a serious threat to health, say aid agencies.

The destruction comes despite Israel's duty to protect critical infrastructure under the rules of war, unless there is evidence sites are being used for military reasons, say human rights lawyers. Of the 603 water facilities we analysed, 53% appeared to have been damaged or destroyed since 7 October.