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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed An Israeli survivor of the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on the Nova musical festival who saw his girlfriend murdered in front of him has been found dead.Roei Shalev’s body was recovered on Friday evening near Tel Aviv.Hours earlier the 30-year-old wrote on social media that “I just want this suffering to end. I’m alive, but inside everything is dead”. He also asked for forgiveness.Shalev’s mother took her own life two weeks after the Hamas attack.Shalev died three days after the two-year anniversary of the Hamas attack.During the attack he tried to shield his girlfriend Mapal…
NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed 55m ago Hamas official says full disarmament is “out of the question” A Hamas official appeared to reject a key element of President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, saying the group would not agree to disarm. “The proposed weapons handover is out of the question and not negotiable,” the official told the AFP news agency. It was not immediately clear if this was its settled position on the issue.Mr. Trump has said that Hamas would be expected to surrender its weapons as part of the second phase of the 20-point plan.Hamas members who decommission their weapons…
NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed It was supposed to be a day of pure joy, with hours spent dancing with the love of his life.But when Hamas terrorists attacked Nova festival on 7 October 2023, Roei Shalev’s life was tragically changed forever.The 29-year-old was dancing the night away with his partner, Mapal Adam, and their best friend Hilly Solomon when rocket fire suddenly drowned out the music.Roei, Mapal and Hilly frantically tried to escape by car, driving away from the festival grounds until they encountered a young woman stumbling into the road, covered in blood.She warned them that there were Hamas…
NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed It is six o’clock in the morning on Saturday 7 October 2023. Half awake, I call out in a hoarse voice to my two sisters who are sleeping on their beds next to me: “Enas, Remas, wake up – you have school.”We were not to know it yet, but this was the day when everything would change. The day when horrific events across the border in Israel would lead to a war that became a gateway to hell itself.Malak Tantesh and her father, Amjed Tantesh, in the ruins of their home in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza.…
NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Next steps of Gaza ceasefire deal hinges on Trump’s involvementpublished at 09:16 BST09:16 BSTHugo BachegaMiddle East correspondent, reporting from Jerusalem Image source, Getty ImagesAs they walk along dusty roads amid the wreckage of buildings, many in silence, there is shock and sadness: the scale of the destruction is difficult to comprehend. Displaced multiple times by the war, Palestinians are returning home, leaving behind their makeshift tents, but some are finding out there is nothing to go back to.Families are searching the rubble for anything that can remind them of their old lives. The Gaza they knew…
NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer at Microsoft for 13 years, announced his resignation Thursday in a mass email sent to thousands of colleagues, protesting the company’s continued cloud services contracts with the Israeli military. “I can no longer accept enabling what may be the worst atrocities of our time,” Sutfin-Glowski wrote, choosing to leave rather than face potential termination for dissent.Glowski’s exit marks the latest escalation in months of internal turmoil at Microsoft over its Israeli military contracts. The company has fired five employees over Gaza-related demonstrations, including four who occupied President Brad Smith’s office…
NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed As thousands of Gazans began picking through the ruins of their shattered homes on Friday after a ceasefire deal, the excitement of return was quickly tempered by shock at the depth of the destruction and anxiety over the hardships ahead. The announcement that the US-brokered accord had gone into effect sent thousands of Palestinians pouring up the Gaza Strip’s coastal road by foot, bicycle, truck and donkey cart toward the largely devastated north. Essentially all of Gaza’s 2.2 million population was displaced during two years of unrelenting war sparked by the enclave’s Hamas rulers that has…
NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Operatives belonging to Hamas’s internal security apparatus tasked with maintaining order within the Strip made their first public appearance just hours after a ceasefire in Gaza came into effect, footage released by Hamas-affiliated media on Friday showed. The footage only showed a handful of gunmen, and it was unclear whether there were any beyond those photographed. The publication of their deployment appeared aimed at demonstrating that Hamas remains the most dominant force in parts of Gaza, even if severely battered after two years of war. It appeared to be the first appearance of internal security officers…
NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Hugo BachegaMiddle East correspondent, Jerusalem andBBC Visual Journalism teamGetty ImagesA ceasefire has come into effect for the war in Gaza, after the Israeli government approved a US-brokered deal with Hamas in negotiations that had the personal involvement of US President Donald Trump.The full text of the agreement has not been made public – but part of it has been published by Israeli media.It appears to lack details and in some cases is vague and ambiguous – perhaps on purpose.Even its title, “Implementation steps for President Trump’s proposal for a comprehensive end of Gaza War”, leaves room…
NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel on Friday published the names of 250 Palestinian security prisoners it has agreed to release as part of the Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal, and Israeli authorities began notifying families whose loved ones’ killers are set to go free. However, Hamas’s Prisoners’ Ministry said there was no agreement yet on the identities of the prisoners to be freed, and Qatari-owned network Al Araby TV cited sources saying the list published by Israel on Friday omitted some names that mediators had agreed on. The list, published the morning after the cabinet approved the US-backed ceasefire deal, includes members…