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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday that the United States is imposing sanctions against the Foxtrot Network, a transnational criminal organization, and its fugitive leader, Rawa Majid.According to the statement, this criminal network based in Sweden is involved in drug and arms trafficking, contributing to the rise of violence in northern Europe through shootings, contract killings, and assaults.”The Iranian regime leveraged the Foxtrot Network to carry out attacks on Israeli and Jewish targets in Europe, including the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, in January 2024,” the State Department said. Majid is alleged to…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Swedish-based ‘Foxtrot Network’ on Wednesday as a transactional criminal organization.OFAC clarified that not only is ‘Foxtrot Network’ involved in trafficking illegal drugs, but it also “carried out attacks on Israelis and Jews in Europe, along with its fugitive leader Rawa Majid.”One of the attacks against Israelis and Jews that ‘Foxtrot Network’ was responsible for was the January 2024 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, when they left explosive devices in the vicinity. Sweden’s national bomb squad successfully destroyed these devices. ‘Foxtrot Network’ is…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist arrested at Columbia University, will remain in the United States and in ICE custody following a brief, highly anticipated court hearing on Wednesday.The arrest of Khalil, a permanent US resident who led anti-Israel protests at Columbia, has drawn national attention. Critics of the arrest have expressed alarm over the threatened deportation of a green card holder based on his activism, saying it threatens free speech rights.The Trump administration and its defenders argue that he supported terrorism and thus violated the terms of his residency in the country. That debate created…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed For months now, President Trump has been threatening to deport foreign students who took part in last year’s campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war.Behind the scenes, his administration got to work.Investigators from a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement that typically focuses on human traffickers and drug smugglers scoured the internet for social media posts and videos that the administration could argue showed sympathy toward Hamas, administration officials said. The investigators handed over reports on multiple protesters to the State Department, which used an obscure legal statute to authorize the arrest over the weekend of a…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, opted not to name a critic of Israel’s war in Gaza to a top post managing briefings for the president, after the proposed appointment upset some members of President Trump’s coalition, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at a Washington think tank who is skeptical of American intervention overseas, was undergoing a background check to become the deputy director for mission integration, the officials said. The post is a powerful job that oversees the compiling of the President’s Daily Brief, a compendium of intelligence…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel’s defence minister has reaffirmed the country’s intention to occupy a swath of Syrian territory beyond Israel’s contested northern borders for an “unlimited amount of time” during a visit to the strategic Mount Hermon.“The IDF is prepared to stay in Syria for an unlimited amount of time. We will hold the security area in Hermon and make sure that all the security zone in southern Syria is demilitarised and clear of weapons and threats,” Israel Katz said on a visit to the peak on Wednesday.After the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December, Israeli forces moved…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed When Israel completed construction of a $1.1 billion above-and-below-ground fence along its 40-mile border with Gaza – equipped with radar devices, cameras, surveillance sensors, and remote-controlled weaponry – it was hailed as an “iron wall.”It was the ultimate high-tech foil to Hamas’ efforts to attack, in particular via underground tunnels.But three years later, just after sunrise on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas forces launched a surprise attack. They used cheap drones to knock out sophisticated cameras and weaponry, “low-tech” tractors to simultaneously bulldoze through dozens of locations along the 20-foot-high steel fencing, and hang gliders to sail…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed For the first time since he was kidnapped to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, released hostages brought back a sign of life from the Avinatan Or, 32 years old, i24NEWS learned on Wednesday.Or is the partner of Noa Argomani, who was rescued from Gaza in a daring operation last June. He has been held captive by Hamas for 523 days after being taken from the Nova music festival in Re’im.Captives who returned as part of the recent deal brought back with them a letter from Or, with the returnees providing information about him and…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas last month has described the distressing conditions and abuse he says he endured during 505 days held in Gaza.In an interview on Israeli television, Omer Wenkert, 23, said he had hidden in a bomb shelter with a close friend when it became clear the Nova music festival was under attack by Hamas and other militants from Gaza on 7 October 2023.“You say ‘Well … this is probably the end,’ and then one of them … started shooting us. It started to get hot and smoke came into the shelter, and…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed On 8 March, Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, was apprehended from university housing by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents. Khalil, a Palestinian and student leader at the Columbia encampments last year, was told by the arresting officers that his green card had been “revoked”, an action that only an immigration judge can decide. It has since been revealed that he is in Ice custody in La Salle, Louisiana, a detention site notorious for abuse.On Truth Social, Donald Trump celebrated the apprehension of Khalil, whom he called “a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student” and…