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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Hamas will be freeing six Israeli hostages on Saturday, in exchange for the liberation of hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, as tensions with Israel escalate in the West Bank. The hostages include  Tal Shoham, 40, Avera Mengistu, 38, Eliya Cohen, 27; Omer Shem Tov, 22; Hisham Al-Sayed, 36, and Omer Wenkert, 23, according to reports from the Associated Press. Five of them have been released so far, with the sixth — Hesham al-Sayed — expected to be released later in the day. The post”Hamas freeing 6 more Israeli hostages as tensions put cease-fire deal…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The family of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas says a body handed over by Hamas on Friday is hers.”Our Shiri was murdered in captivity and has now returned home,” the family said in a statement. Israel’s forensic officials who have been examining the body are yet to confirm the identification.Remains handed over by Hamas on Thursday which it said were those of Shiri Bibas turned out to be an unidentified woman, Israel said.It comes as six living hostages are handed over by Hamas on Saturday as part of a ceasefire deal. More than 600 Palestinian prisoners will…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed University leaders reassured campus security officials amid pro-Palestine protests in the UK that they would back them if “things got tough” after their US counterparts were disciplined for their approach, according to internal emails.Reports subsequently emerged of students on British campuses facing disciplinary measures and tough bail conditions after police were called on largely non-violent demonstrations, raising claims of a heavy-handed strategy.Evidence of a successful lobbying campaign by campus security officials emerged in an email written last August by Oliver Curran, the chair of the Association of University Chief Security Officers (Aucso), a professional body with…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Who are the hostages being released today?published at 07:36 Greenwich Mean Time07:36 GMTImage source, Hostages and Missing Families ForumImage caption, Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov, 22, was taken from the Nova Festival on 7 October 2023. His family say they expect him to be released on SaturdayOf the six living hostages due for release today, four of them were captured during the attack by Hamas against Israel on 7 October 2023. The other two hostages have been held in Gaza for a decade.The six are:Eliya Cohen: 27 years old, he and and his girlfriend initially hid…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Attendees at IDEX in Abu Dhabi visit the Israel pavilion during the Middle East’s largest defense expo on Feb. 18, 2025Natasha Turak | CNBCABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates – A record 34 Israeli companies exhibited at IDEX this week, the Middle East’s largest defense expo hosted biennially by Abu Dhabi. After fifteen months of a devastating war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and amid a fragile and long-awaited ceasefire between the two bitter enemies, reception for the Jewish state’s arms manufacturers at the event was overwhelmingly positive, according to executives of the companies at the expo.  “We…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) arrested two Jewish-Israeli suspects and are investigating their potential involvement in transporting the terrorists that planted bombs on buses in the Bat Yam area of central Israel on Thursday evening, Israeli media reported on Friday. The two are also charged with attempted murder.Shin Bet also added that it is continuing the search for additional suspects who planted explosive devices last night in three buses parked at different locations in Bat Yam and another bus in Holon, KAN added. “At this stage, there are no conclusive findings,” Shin Bet added. The initial…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israelis and Palestinians are bracing for another tense exchange of hostages, prisoners and detainees on Saturday after uproar in Israel over allegations that two child hostages were “brutally murdered” by Hamas, and the group’s failure to deliver the body of their mother, instead returning the corpse of an unidentified woman.The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement on Friday afternoon that autopsy results and military intelligence concluded that members of Hamas “used their bare hands” to kill Ariel Bibas, four, and his 10-month-old brother, Kfir, when they were seized in October 2023.“Their father, [the recently released…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A proposed executive order targeting pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University has sparked intense debate and concern among Israeli and Israeli-Jewish students on campus. The order, which could lead to the deportation of Palestinian students, has raised alarms about academic freedom, campus safety, and the broader implications for reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.This proposed action prompted a cohort of Israeli and Palestinian students at Columbia University to pen an op-ed in Columbia’s premier student publication, The Columbia Spectator. The piece calls for the university to protect impacted students and condemns threats to students, as well as…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed In a soon-to-be-published article in Middle East Quarterly magazine, Colin Winston, a 30-year veteran of the CIA and former head of research at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), lays out a succinct case for an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.“Hezbollah and Hamas no longer pose a threat to Israel,” Winston writes. “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ lies in ruin. Both Iran’s and Syria’s air defense systems have been destroyed, and Iran’s missile capabilities decimated. “Despite this, Iran is on the verge of producing enough weapons-grade uranium to build several bombs –…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed President Donald Trump is ‘horrified’ by the scenes coming out of Israel following the return of the Bibas children’s bodies on Thursday, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said Friday morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “His heart breaks,” Waltz said of Trump. “My message, President Trump’s message to those families, we are with you.”Waltz said that Hamas’s return of the Bibas children’s bodies, without their mother Shiri, shows what despicable people Hamas are and why they can never be allowed to run Gaza.  “There is a lot of talk about two states. You know who…