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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Paul AdamsDiplomatic correspondentReutersPalestinians in Gaza are trying to put their lives back together in the current, fragile peaceWhere next? The first six-week phase of the Gaza ceasefire ends on Saturday.The 42 days since 19 January have seen their fair share of uncertainty, hope, grief and anger, but everything that should have happened in that time has.Israeli hostages – the living and the dead – have been released. Palestinian prisoners set free.But negotiations on phase two, including the release of all remaining living hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, have barely begun.Talks opened in…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The US State Department has approved the potential sale of nearly $3 billion worth of bombs, demolition kits and other weaponry to Israel, the Pentagon said in statements on Friday.The prospective weapons sales were notified to Congress on Friday afternoon on an emergency basis, Reuters reported.That process sidesteps a long-standing practice of giving the chairs and ranking members of the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committees the opportunity to review the sale and ask for more information before making a formal notification to Congress.The sales included 35,529 general-purpose bomb bodies for 2,000-pound bombs and…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed CAIRO — The latest round of talks on the second phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has made no progress so far, and it was unclear whether the talks would resume on Saturday, a senior Hamas official said. The first phase of the ceasefire, which paused 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip, saw the release of 33 hostages, including eight bodies, in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Phase one expires on Saturday, but under the terms of the deal, fighting is not to resume while negotiations are underway on the second…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed An Illinois man has been found guilty of murder after stabbing a six-year-old boy 26 times in an attack prosecutors say was sparked by anti-Muslim hatred.Wadee al Fayoume, a Palestinian-American, died in hospital after he was attacked with a “military-style” knife on 16 October 2023. The killing – carried out by 73-year-old Joseph Czuba – took place days after the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel and was one of the earliest and worst hate crimes in the US since the start of the Israel-Gaza war.His mother, Hanan Shaheen, was also left severely wounded.Czuba was…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed An Illinois jury on Friday found a man guilty of murder and hate crime charges for an October 2023 stabbing that killed a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and severely wounded his mother, according to court documents.Joseph Czuba, 73, faces life in prison when he is sentenced in May for a murder that prosecutors said was sparked by anti-Muslim hatred.The murder of the boy, Wadee Alfayoumi, and the attack on his mother, Hanan Shaheen, was one of the earliest and worst hate crime incidents in the US since the start of the Israel-Gaza war. During the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The Israeli military has presented the UN and aid organisations with a plan for running Gaza that involves Israel having tighter control than it did before the war, according to humanitarian officials, casting doubt on whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has any intention of carrying out a military withdrawal.At meetings with UN representatives on Wednesday and with officials from other agencies on Thursday, Cogat, the army unit given the task of delivering aid to the occupied territories, outlined a scheme of distributing supplies through tightly managed logistics hubs to vetted Palestinian recipients.The blueprint appears to be a…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Jonatan Urich, a media advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is the main suspect in the investigation on the connection between the Prime Minister’s Office and Qatar, according to an initial examination by the Shin Bet and Israel Police on Friday, Channel 13 reported.The investigation reportedly concluded that Netanyahu aide Eli Feldstein is not a main suspect in the probe, and that he was only a “subordinate” to Urich. As per Channel 13, all of Feldstein’s actions were under Urich’s direction.Feldstein denies any direct or indirect ties with Qatar, Channel 13 continued. Attorney-General ordered an…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Katie RazzallCulture and media editorBBC/AMJAD AL FAYOUMI/ HOYO FILMSAs guests sat down on the red cinema-style seats in the screening room of a plush central London hotel, nobody could have imagined that, less than a month later, the BBC would find itself forced to apologise for serious and unacceptable flaws in the documentary that was about to be shown.In the darkness, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone unfolded over an hour, telling in bleak and upsetting detail the story of Gaza’s children over recent months of the war.Screenings are standard practice for media companies, primarily for…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel and Hamas have begun working to advance their ceasefire agreement in Gaza to the next phase, but it’s unclear if they’ll get there and, if not, what comes next. The first phase of the ceasefire, which paused 15 months of war, freed Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and enabled more humanitarian aid to reach Gaza, expires on Saturday. The two sides seem willing to maintain their truce while negotiators from the U.S., Egypt and Qatar guide talks aimed at getting to the next phase.The parties were supposed to have begun ironing out the details of…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Thousands of police forces have been deployed across Jerusalem ahead of the month of Ramadan, which is expected to begin tomorrow morning or Sunday morning. The announcement of the exact date is expected to be made this afternoon.If Ramadan begins tomorrow morning, the first Tarawih prayer will be held on the Temple Mount tonight, although in a limited format, and the police do not expect it to cause any disturbances.The political echelon is expected to make a decision regarding the entry of West Bank residents to the Temple Mount. The Jerusalem District Police and the security establishment…