As Israel began to take its avowed “mighty revenge” for the Hamas invasion by pounding Gaza with the fiercest barrage of rockets in the 75-year history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, students at the BYU Jerusalem Center peacefully attended classes on the campus. “The city is quiet,” the center’s director, Eric Huntsman, wrote on Facebook. “It has been a busy, good day, but I had time to take my accustomed few minutes in the afternoon in the biblical garden to read, reflect, pray and gaze over the city. I love it...

JERUSALEM (ABC4) — Students and expats at Brigham Young University‘s Jerusalem Center are confirmed to be safe amid ongoing conflicts in Israel. On Saturday morning, Hamas militants attacked Israel with airstrikes in Gaza. The attacks spread beyond the Gaza Strip into nearby Israeli towns. The BYU Jerusalem Center said rocket fire continued on coastal cities throughout the night with cities such as Tel Aviv, about 33 miles north of Jerusalem, struck in the attack. In a Sunday morning update, Center officials estimated 600 Israelis were killed, 350 seriously wounded and...