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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old from New Jersey, was taken hostage from his military base during Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, which triggered the war. He is the last known US citizen still held in Gaza. Hamas is believed to be holding 59 hostages, with 35 thought to be dead.At a protest camp in Tel Aviv outside Israeli military headquarters, families of hostages criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “You want to sacrifice our children for the pleasures of power,” said Itzik Horn, whose son Eitan remains a hostage while another son, Iair, has…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman, who died last year, used doctor-assisted suicide to end his life, a Wall Street Journal essay revealed on Friday.Kahneman flew to Switzerland a year ago to end his life and only let close friends and family know about his decision when he was en route to Europe in an email. Some of his friends and family reportedly still struggle to come to terms with his decision.He was 90 at the time of his death, and was in relatively good mental and physical health. Some of…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Defense Minister Israel Katz on Saturday criticized the military’s plan to issue 14,000 additional draft orders to ultra-Orthodox men by May, arguing that unilateral measures have failed in the past.“The principles of the draft law I presented to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee are based on two key pillars: setting clear recruitment targets for significant military service among the ultra-Orthodox community—along with clear sanctions for failing to meet them—while also preserving and protecting the Jewish Torah world, which is fundamental to our existence as a Jewish state,” Katz wrote.He warned that previous attempts, including…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The current fragile pause in hostilities in Gaza has come under further threat with Hamas hardening its negotiating positions amid new Israeli airstrikes in the devastated territory.The first phase of the ceasefire agreement ended two weeks ago but Israel is refusing to implement the scheduled second phase, which is supposed to end with its withdrawal from Gaza, the freedom of all remaining hostages held by Hamas, and a definitive end to the conflict.Currently, both sides have refrained from returning to war, though Israel has conducted an intensifying series of airstrikes in Gaza that have killed dozens…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A team of charity workers has been killed in Israeli strikes in northern Gaza, the UK-registered Al Khair Foundation has told the BBC.The charity said eight workers – including volunteers and journalists documenting their activities – were killed when their vehicles were targeted on Saturday in what Hamas described as a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire agreement with Israel.The Israeli military has said it had struck “two terrorists who were identified operating a drone that posed a threat to Israeli troops”, adding that it then targeted “additional terrorists” who arrived at the scene. The charity rejects…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed At least five Palestinians were killed, including two local journalists, and others wounded on Saturday in an Israeli strike on Gaza’s northern Beit Lahiya town, medics told Reuters, as Hamas’ leaders hold Gaza ceasefire talks with mediators in Cairo. Mourners pray over the bodies of four Palestinians killed by an Israeli airstrike in the Netzarim corridor, at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.(AP) Several were critically injured as the strike hit a car, with casualties inside and outside the vehicle, the medics added. Witnesses and fellow journalists said the people in…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Rushdi Abu AloufGaza correspondentEPAMore than 90% of homes in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged, says the UNTalks to extend the Gaza ceasefire have failed to reach an agreement, a Palestinian official has told the BBC, as the US accused Hamas of making “entirely impractical” demands at meetings in Qatar.Negotiators have been trying to find a way forward after the first phase of the temporary truce ended on 1 March.The US proposed to extend the first phase until mid-April, including a further exchange of hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.But the unnamed…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed GENEVA (AP) — United Nations-backed human rights experts on Thursday accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.The allegations came in one of the most extensive reports of its kind on the issue since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel ignited the war.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the Human Rights Council, a U.N.-backed body that commissioned the team of independent experts, as an “anti-Israel circus” that “has long been exposed as an antisemitic, rotten, terrorist-supporting, and irrelevant…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed THE BEGINNING OF ISRAELI CONCERN ABOUT TRUMPAl-Ahram, Egypt, March 8For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s latest surprise to the world – and Israel likely wasn’t excluded from this revelation – is that a representative of his administration has been holding secret direct negotiations with Hamas for weeks in Doha!This marks an unprecedented move for an American administration, as the United States officially designated Hamas as a terrorist organization in 1997. The White House confirmed the news, stating that Adam Boehler, the American envoy for hostages, holds full…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of antisemitism.Across academia,…