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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The University of Edinburgh, one of the UK’s oldest and most prestigious educational institutions, played an “outsized” role in the creation of racist scientific theories and greatly profited from transatlantic slavery, a landmark inquiry into its history has found.The university raised the equivalent of at least £30m from former students and donors who had links to the enslavement of African peoples, the plantation economy and exploitative wealth-gathering throughout the British empire, according to the findings of an official investigation seen by the Guardian.The inquiry found that Edinburgh became a “haven” for professors who developed theories of…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed An IDF officer and soldier from the Golani Brigade’s elite reconnaissance unit were killed Saturday in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, when an explosive device was detonated against a Namer armored personnel carrier (APC), the military said Sunday morning.The two fallen servicemen were identified as Capt. Amir Saad, 22, from the Druze village of Yanuh-Jat, a technology and maintenance officer in Golani reconnaissance unit, and Sgt. Inon Nuriel Vana, 20, from Kiryat Tivon, a technology and maintenance soldier in the same unit. A third officer was moderately wounded in the incident, which set the armored vehicle…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israeli forces took over a boat that was attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, and towed it toward the Ashdod Port. The boat, Handala, had been carrying pro-Palestinian activists and small amounts of humanitarian aid supplies. It set sail from Sicily earlier this month, weeks after Israel intercepted a different vessel that made a high-profile attempt to break the blockade. Handala is operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which also dispatched the previous boat, the Madleen, on a mission to challenge Israel’s blockade on the Strip. According to the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A civilian ship carrying aid to Palestinians in Gaza was intercepted by the Israeli military in international waters on Saturday, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition confirmed.  The Handala flotilla was carrying baby formula, diapers, food, and medicine. The passengers were detained and the cargo was seized. The coalition said the boat was intercepted “in international waters outside Palestinian territorial waters off Gaza, in violation of international maritime law.”  “Israel has no legal authority to detain international civilians aboard the Handala,” Ann Wright, a member of the Freedom Flotilla’s steering committee, said in a statement. “This is not…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A landlord jailed for decades after he attacked a Palestinian American boy and his mother has died.Three months ago, Joseph Czuba was sentenced to 53 years behind bars for the attack. He was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder and hate-crime charges in the death of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of the boy’s mother, Hanan Shaheen.The 73-year-old Czuba targeted them in October 2023 because of their Islamic faith and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas, which started days earlier.Czuba died Thursday in the custody of the Illinois corrections department,…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes and gunshots killed at least 53 people in Gaza overnight and into Saturday, most of them shot dead while seeking aid, according to Palestinian health officials and the local ambulance service, as starvation deaths continued.Deadly Israeli gunfire was reported twice within hours close to the Zikim crossing with Israel in the north. In the first incident, at least a dozen people waiting for aid trucks were killed, said staff at Shifa hospital, where bodies were taken. Israel’s military said it fired warning shots to distance a crowd “in…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israeli sources believe US and Israeli strikes in Iran last month hampered the Islamic Republic’s development of two types of nuclear warheads and an “electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon that could cripple Israel electronically,” the Washington Post reported Saturday. According to the report, the 12-day war with Iran also destroyed roughly half of Tehran’s 3,000 ballistic missiles and 80% of its 500 missile launchers. Unnamed Israeli sources were cited as saying Tehran was planning to raise its ballistic missile stockpile to at least 8,000, meaning any further delay to the strike against Iran would have exposed Israel…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed One of the chauvinistic, self-glorifying myths of American liberalism is that the US has especially strong institutions. In this story, trotted out occasionally since 2016 to reassure those who are worried about Donald Trump’s influence, the private and public bodies of American commerce, governance, healthcare and education are possessed of uncommonly robust internal accountability mechanisms, rock-hard rectitude, and a coolly rational self-interest. Trump can only do so much damage to America’s economy, culture and way of life, it was reasoned, because these institutions would not bend to his will. They would resist him; they would check…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Kevin Nguyen and Alex MurrayBBC VerifyReutersMore than two million Palestinians in Gaza are facing a starvation crisis, with deaths from malnutrition rising by the day, according to the United Nations.The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a group backed by Israel and the US, has been operating in Gaza since late May. It says that it has distributed 91 million meals, primarily in the form of food boxes.While the BBC has been unable to see these boxes first-hand since Israel has blocked international journalists from entering Gaza, BBC Verify has examined photos and other information shared by the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel is pursuing an extensive PR effort to remove itself from blame for the starvation and killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the face of overwhelming evidence that it is responsible.As dozens of governments, UN organisations and other international figures have detailed Israel’s culpability, officials and ministers in Israel have attempted to suggest that there is no hunger in Gaza, that if hunger exists it is not Israel’s fault, or to blame Hamas or the UN and aid organisations for problems with distribution of aid.The Israeli effort has continued even as one of its own…