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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Baalbek-Hermel is one of Lebanon’s most underserved governorates, and hosts the largest refugee community in a country that already has the highest number of refugees per capita worldwide. It’s heavily impacted by the latest war and ongoing Israeli airstrikes. Children in Baalbek-Hermel grow up with stress and uncertainty that they don’t yet have the means to express. For Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, art-based psychosocial activities, particularly drawing sessions, have emerged as an accessible and impactful entry point for mental health support for these children. Their drawings reveal how trauma, memory, and hope coexist when…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Burying nearly 18,000 bodies during Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, undertaker Yousef Abu Hatab is a witness to one of the worst tragedies in Palestinian history.With a hoe in his cracked hand, Abu Hatab, 65, buried the bodies that arrived one after another in the southern city of Khan Younis until the cemetery became so full.Most of the buried bodies had no names, as the graves contained only remains torn to pieces by the relentless Israeli bombing.“We buried the bodies in harsh conditions, in mass graves, individual graves, and inside hospitals, under unprecedented pressure and a…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Photo by: Oded Karni IDI’s 2025 Israeli Democracy Index: More positive assessments of the country’s overall situation, but there are low grades for Israeli democracy; public trust in the majority of institutions remains low; and the friction between Right and Left is viewed as the most acute social tension in Israel. Despite this, most Israelis prefer to remain in Israel rather than moving abroad. The Israel Democracy Institute publishes today its 2025 Israeli Democracy Index (click here for a summary of findings), based on a large-scale survey carried out in May, parts of which…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard claimed in an interview broadcast on Monday that he was told years ago by someone “sent by the Israeli government” that he should commit suicide to “close the door” on his case, which had caused a major rift between Israel and the US. The recording, which was aired on Army Radio, featured Pollard recounting a conversation he had with an apparent Israeli agent, sometime between his release from a US prison in 2015 and his immigration to Israel in 2020. “He said, ‘You are a patriot right? You love your country?’” Pollard…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Both sides of the miserable war in Gaza are dragging their feet on moving on to the next crucial phase of the ceasefire, leaving Palestinians in the territory to deal with the muck and sometimes deadly cold of winter with few reasons to hope that meaningful progress will come soon.“Isreal needs to let us live,” said Mohamed Hassouna, 44, who has moved all of his belongings into a tent amid the pulverized concrete of what was once his neighbourhood near Gaza City. “They can be a country and we can be a country,” he told a videographer working…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The family of slain hostage Master Sgt. Ran Gvili was joined by supporters at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square on Sunday night for the last night of Hanukkah, vowing to continue the public campaign for the return of his remains. Gvili, who was killed while battling Palestinian terrorists at Kibbutz Alumim in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, is the last captive held in the Gaza Strip, after Hamas released all the remaining living hostages and the rest of the slain captives as part of the ceasefire deal that took effect this October. Israel has reportedly told…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed When Melinda Strauss landed in Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport last week, a woman she’d never met rushed over to say hello. “She follows me on social media,” Strauss said in an interview with The Times of Israel. “She’s Christian, and she’s excited to be visiting Israel for the first time. I get people coming up to me with things like that all the time.” For Strauss, a cheerful, fast-talking New York–based food-blogger-turned-Jewish-educator with 1.7 million followers across TikTok and Instagram, moments like this have become a regular part of life. Since Hamas invaded Israel on October…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel has approved a proposal for 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as the government pushes ahead with a construction binge in the territory that poses a further threat to the possibility of a Palestinian state.It brings the total number of new settlements over the past few years to 69, a new record, according to the far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who has pushed a settlement expansion agenda in the West Bank. The latest include two that were previously evacuated during a 2005 disengagement plan.The approval by the security cabinet increases the number…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed However, the government’s adviser on antisemitism has since said that some of the intelligence the force used to come to the decision was “inaccurate”.Lord Mann told the Home Affairs Committee earlier this month that some facts about the earlier matches had been changed to fit the decision.West Midlands Police also faced criticism over two of its high-ranking officers appearing to reiterate some of these inaccuracies before the committee.The IOPC tends to investigate cases that have been referred to it by individual police forces – usually when someone has died due to police action, or if a…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Amnesty International on Thursday urged all states to prevent the Portuguese-flagged Holger G vessel carrying munition components bound for Israel from docking at their ports, hindering the supply of arms to Israel. Having departed from India on November 16, the cargo is destined for Israel’s biggest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems and its subsidiary IMI Systems.Erika Guevara Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns of Amnesty International, said, “The hundreds of tonnes of deadly cargo on board the Holger G must not reach Israel. There is a clear risk that this colossal transportation would contribute…