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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Green Party Leader Zack Polanski has accused the Mayor of London of failing to use his platform to stand up for Londoners out of fear of falling out of favour with the Labour government. Mr Polanski, who was elected as leader in September, also sits in City Hall as one of three Green Party members on the London Assembly. In an exclusive interview with the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS), he accused Sir Sadiq Khan of siding with his party colleagues in Westminster rather than using his “huge platform” to convey the wants and needs of…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Covert Israeli forces on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line have reportedly detained a Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative linked to the abduction of slain police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage still being held in the Strip. According to the Saudi-owned outlet Asharq al-Awsat, the unnamed operative is part of the al-Quds Brigades, PIJ’s armed wing, and was active in Gaza City’s eastern Zeitoun neighborhood, which is bisected by the ceasefire line. Citing local sources and sources from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Sunday report said that the operative was detained a…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Fierce rain and bitter cold continued to batter Gaza this weekend, as the number of Palestinians killed by the harsh winter weather continues to rise. Sunday saw two people killed, including a seven-year-old child, when a wall collapsed due to the cold weather, according to Gaza’s civil defense. As Palestinians seek shelter from the heavy rain in bombed-out ruins, aid agencies have warned of the risks posed by the dilapidated buildings which are prone to collapse during the cold weather. Twenty people have been killed by homes and buildings collapsing over the heads as they sought…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Seven decades after Tareq Baconi’s grandmother fled in terror from the port city of Haifa, carrying a Bible, a crucifix and a week’s worth of clothes, he followed her directions to the family home a few blocks from the sea.The building was still standing, almost as she had left it in 1948, instantly familiar from childhood stories. Standing beside his husband, Baconi could not bring himself to ring the bell, to find out who was living in the rooms that held Eva’s childhood memories.“I want to imagine it empty, loyal, waiting for our return. I want…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Several leading film professionals who withdrew their films from Culture Minister Miki Zohar’s new alternative awards ceremony have agreed to reverse their decision and take part in the Tuesday event, the group said in a statement Sunday. Zohar set up the alternative ceremony to the Ophir Awards and threatened to cut funding from the industry over prizes handed out to films accused of being pro-Palestinian and casting the IDF in a negative light. The eight nominees — director Erez Tadmor, actresses Irit Kaplan and Nur Fibak, cinematographer Amit Yasur, screenwriter Mindi Ehrlich, screenwriter Yoav Shutan-Goshen, and…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Today will be colder than usual, with intermittent rain continuing from northern Israel to the northern Negev. In the morning, isolated thunderstorms are possible, and there remains a risk of flash floods in eastern streams. Brisk winds will blow. From the afternoon hours, rainfall will gradually weaken and decrease. During the night, rain will renew and intensify again in the northern and central parts of the country, accompanied by isolated thunderstorms. Winds will strengthen, especially along the coastal plain and in mountainous areas. Forecast temperatures for today and tonight: Jerusalem 9-11, Tel Aviv 15-17, Haifa 14-15,…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The life of Italian legal scholar Francesca Albanese, who has been the U.N. special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories since 2022, began to change this summer on the day she presented her report From the Economy of Occupation to the Economy of Genocide, in which she accused major corporations of being complicit in Israel’s offensive in Gaza. She had already received threats after her March report, Anatomy of a Genocide, but this time it was different. Six days later, on July 9, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the sanctions imposed in February…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Sydney couple Corinne and Peter Collins are downsizing from a five-bedroom house to a three-bedroom apartment in Wahroonga. (Source: Supplied) A growing number of Baby Boomers are planning to downsize to boost their retirement funds, new research has found. The cost of a comfortable retirement has hit a record high, which may explain why some are trading in their family home to free up some extra cash. Property developer Capital Corporation conducted a national survey of Aussie adults who own a home and planned to downsize in the next five years. It found 56 per cent…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Thousands of Israelis protested against the government in the rain throughout the country on Saturday, with former police chief Roni Alsheich slamming the cabinet for its conduct amid the so-called Qatargate scandal. “Israel stepped in to whitewash Qatar in the eyes of the United States and turned it into a financer of Hamas in the Strip under the slogan ‘Hamas is an asset,’” Alsheich told the crowd at Habima Square in Tel Aviv. “It wasn’t [Eli] Feldstein or [Jonatan] Urich who did this, but the prime minister,” he added, referring to the aides of Prime Minister…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents Saturday for another round of winter rain.Some families in the central town of Deir al Balah said they had been living in tents for about two years — most of the war between Israel and Hamas that has devastated the territory.Fathers braced fraying tents with old pieces of wood or inspected the ragged edges of holes torn in tarps. Inside the dim homes, daylight through tiny holes shone like stars.Mothers battled the damp, slinging clothing over poles…