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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The Israeli military expanded its ground operations across the Gaza Strip on Thursday as Hamas fired rockets at central Israel for the first time in months, in what looked increasingly like a slide back toward full-scale war.Israeli soldiers began raiding part of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, the military said, as well as near Beit Lahiya in the north of the enclave. Those moves came a day after Israel announced it had recaptured part of the Netzarim corridor, which bisects central Gaza, after withdrawing from the area as part of the January cease-fire with…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The head of Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, has been dismissed, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office, a week after Benjamin Netanyahu said he had lost confidence in him, and despite three days of protests against the move.“The government unanimously approved prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to end ISA [Israeli Security Agency] director Ronen Bar’s term of office,” a statement said.He will leave his post when his successor is appointed, or by 10 April at the latest, the statement said.Bar, whose tenure was meant to end next year, was appointed by the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on March 19, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 The Israeli government coalition hopes to have taken some of the last hurdles to avert the looming threat of new elections after the Knesset approved several bills with frameworks and targets for the 2025 state budget in an overnight session.If the budget fails to pass, new elections within 90 days are triggered automatically, according to law. With the legal deadline set for March 31, the coalition now appears to have paved the way…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Meanwhile, the families of hostages held in Gaza urged military officials to prioritize their rescue, warning that increased military pressure could put their loved ones at greater risk.Israeli airstrikes overnight killed Ayman Atsalih, the head of Hamas’ General Security apparatus in Khan Younis, and Rashid Jahjuh, who led the organization’s General Security Forces in Gaza, the military said. In a separate strike, Israeli forces also eliminated Ismail Abd al-Aal, a key operative in PIJ’s weapons smuggling network.The IDF and the Shin Bet security agency confirmed that Jahjuh had taken over Hamas’ General Security Forces after his…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed “Israel is very close to civil war,” former Supreme Court chief justice Aharon Barak said in a Channel 12 interview on Thursday. He made the comment when asked whether Israel was “an instant away from a civil war.”“The rift in the nation is enormous; no effort is being made to heal it, and everyone is trying to exacerbate it,” he said. “Today, there are protests, so a car drives through them and runs over someone, and tomorrow there will be gunshots, and the day after, blood will be spilled,” he added. “A red line that said, ‘We…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Sirens sounded across central Israel following launches from the Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon.The sirens were sounded in Tel Aviv, Holon, Rishon Lezion, Ramat Gan, and other locations in the Tel Aviv area.The IDF announced that the Israel Air Force intercepted one projectile and confirmed that two others hit an open area. United Hatzalah announced that they had received several calls from people suffering from anxiety attacks triggered by the sirens.Israel Police later announced that they were working on locating a piece of fallen shrapnel in the Shfela area.Israel Police has previously announced that they…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was expected on Thursday to formally fire the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, despite street protests and scuffles over the move that have further roiled a deeply divided country still at war.The Israeli cabinet was set to convene for a nighttime vote on the dismissal of the Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar, just days after Mr. Netanyahu announced his intention to oust him, citing a lack of personal trust between them.It comes after Israel’s military resumed a deadly campaign in Gaza that has raised concern among many…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Tens of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to call for a new ceasefire in Gaza and to protest against what they say is an attack on the country’s democracy by the rightwing governing coalition of Benjamin Netanyahu.Key highways have been blocked and police have made at least 12 arrests amid heated scenes in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. More protests were expected in the coming days as the campaign “gathers momentum and energy”, campaigners said.The immediate trigger for the anger was Netanyahu’s attempt to dismiss Ronen Bar, the head of the internal security agency,…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed ReutersIsrael resumed large-scale air strikes on Gaza on TuesdayAt least 85 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza since midnight, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry has said.Hours later, Israel’s military said it had intercepted three rockets, which Hamas’s armed wing said it fired at Tel Aviv in response. It comes after Israel resumed its bombing campaign and ground operations in Gaza this week, with air strikes having already killed more than 500 people over the past two days, according to the health ministry.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Thursday that it had…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Protesters demanded the release of Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas in Gaza by blocking Tel Aviv’s Yigal Alon Street on Thursday morning.The Women’s Protest for the Return of the Hostages had earlier attempted to block the southbound Ayalon Highway but was prevented from doing so before relocating to the adjacent Yigal Alon Street. The protesters said when demonstrating that “the government is executing the hostages” and that “renewing hostilities is a death sentence for the hostages.”Among the participants were relatives of hostages who were released or died in captivity. The post”Protesters demand release of…