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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Donald Trump has doubled down on his backing for Israel after having appeared to give a green light to the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, to recognize a Palestinian state.Amid signs of mounting opposition among his Maga base to Israel’s military operation in Gaza, Trump criticized Starmer’s plan to grant recognition as “rewarding Hamas” even after having not taken issue with it when the pair met in Scotland this week.Talking to journalists onboard Air Force One on his return to Washington, Trump said the US was “not in that camp”, referring to Starmer’s pledge, which followed…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed With negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal having stalled, Israel has sent a message to Hamas that if it doesn’t accept the proposal on the table in the coming days, Jerusalem will begin to take punitive measures against it, including the annexation of territory on Gaza’s outer perimeter, senior Israeli officials told Kan and Channel 13 news on Wednesday. The reports came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a small group of top aides and ministers to discuss ongoing efforts to make some progress toward a deal with Hamas. Talks slowly continue in…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Seven more people have died from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry in the Palestinian territory has said.It says the total number of malnutrition deaths since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in 2023 has now reached 154 – including 89 children.On Tuesday, UN-backed global food security experts warned that the worst-case scenario of famine is “currently playing out” in Gaza.Israel says it is not imposing restrictions on aid entering Gaza – those claims are not accepted by its close allies in Europe, the UN and other agencies…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Belgian federal prosecutors have referred a case involving two Israeli men accused of war crimes in Gaza to the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to a report by AFP.The investigation, launched 10 days ago, stems from complaints filed by the Belgian-based pro-Palestinian NGO Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), which claims the two individuals, allegedly Israeli soldiers, were involved in serious violations of international law during the Gaza conflict.The men were identified by HRF after being seen at the Tomorrowland music festival near Antwerp on July 18. Following two formal complaints, Belgian authorities briefly detained and questioned the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The New York Times (NYT) has issued an Editors’ Note Wednesday regarding the photo of an extremely sick-looking young boy in his mother’s arms in Gaza which was featured in an article circulating the media over the past week.The NYT has since altered the article, adding that the child also suffered from health issues, after the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) publicized records showing the child suffered from severe preexisting medical conditions and had been evacuated to a hospital in Italy to receive care in June.”We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The New York Times (NYT) has issued an Editors’ Note Wednesday regarding the photo of an extremely sick-looking young boy in his mother’s arms in Gaza which was featured in an article circulating the media over the past week.The NYT has since altered the article, adding that the child also suffered from health issues, after the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) publicized records showing the child suffered from severe preexisting medical conditions and had been evacuated to a hospital in Italy to receive care in June.”We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Bruce said the measure “gives one group hope” and incentivizes bad actors to not cooperate with diplomatic channels. “In any other normal environment where someone was so utterly defeated, they would surrender. In this case, that just does not occur,” said Bruce. Bruce added that Hamas relied on “the hope that they receive on how long the suffering lasts, how much that pushes the world to acquiesce to their arguments.” Calls for recognition in the U.K. grew across the political divide after images surfaced of the scale of starvation in Gaza. Starmer told his Cabinet Tuesday…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The UK’s largest Jewish organisation has called for a “rapid, uninhibited, and sustained increase in aid through all available channels” in Gaza in a rare implicit criticism of the Israeli government.The Board of Deputies held an emergency meeting on Tuesday evening amid growing horror among British Jews at the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with children malnourished and starving and desperate parents being killed as they try to secure food for their families.In a statement issued after the meeting, Phil Rosenberg, the board’s president, said the Israeli government’s recent moves to allow limited aid into Gaza in…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A group of high-profile Israeli public figures, including academics, artists and public intellectuals, has called for “crippling sanctions” to be imposed by the international community on Israel, amid mounting horror over its starvation of Gaza.The 31 signatories of a letter to the Guardian include an Academy award recipient, Yuval Abraham; a former Israeli attorney general, Michael Ben-Yair; Avraham Burg, a former speaker of Israel’s parliament and former head of the Jewish Agency; and a number of recipients of the prestigious Israel prize, Israel’s highest cultural honour.The figures come from the worlds of poetry, science, journalism and…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed JTA — As images of malnourished children in Gaza continue to circulate and the international outcry grows louder, a number of American rabbis used their pulpits this past Shabbat to speak up about the humanitarian crisis, some with sorrow, others with moral urgency, and many with a sense that silence was no longer tenable. The sermons came amid growing pressure on Jewish institutions to reckon with the consequences for Palestinian civilians of Israel’s war against Hamas as it nears the end of its second year. In recent days, more than 1,000 rabbis from around the world…