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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A new article, published in the IAA’s journal Atiqot this week, suggests this unique structure, with a series of eight rock-hewn rooms, was used for cultic purposes and was in use during the time the Temple stood on the Temple Mount, a few hundred meters to the north. 6 View gallery The mysterious carvings found inside the building (Photo: Kobi Harati, City of David Park)6 View gallery Carved platform used to lead water (Photo: Kobi Harati, City of David Park)According to the IAA, this is the only cultic structure from this period discovered in Jerusalem to…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed There’s no need to sugarcoat the reality: the emerging cease-fire and hostage release deal is bad for Israel, but it has no choice but to accept it. A country that became deeply entangled in such a severe and complex event on October 7, 2023, carries a moral obligation to the civilians dragged from their beds and to the soldiers abandoned by the military they enlisted in. This doesn’t absolve us from confronting the grim future awaiting on the other side, given the numerous gaps in the proposed framework. The tragic incident in Beit Hanoun on Tuesday,…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed What would ceasefire deal involve?published at 09:05 Greenwich Mean Time09:05 GMTRushdi AbualoufGaza correspondentMore information now on how a potential ceasefire deal would look.Revealing some potential details of the agreement, a Palestinian official told the BBC that “the detailed technical discussions took considerable time”.Both sides agreed that Hamas would release three hostages on the first day of the agreement, after which Israel would begin withdrawing troops from populated areas.Seven days later, Hamas would release four additional hostages, and Israel would allow displaced people in the south to return to the north, but only on foot via the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The terms of a hostage release deal that would see three hostages released on the first day of its implementation, with another four being released the following week, have reportedly been finalized, a Palestinian official familiar with the negotiations told the BBC late Monday. In the report, the Palestinian official says that after the release of the first few hostages from the terrorist organization, the IDF would start the withdrawal of its soldiers from populated areas. Then, after the release of the other four hostages, Israel would allow displaced Palestinians in the south of the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Monarchs, presidents and prime ministers are expected among the attenders at a commemoration event for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz later this month, but none of them will be let near a microphone.In a first for a “round” anniversary of the liberation, the Auschwitz museum has banned all speeches by politicians at the event on 27 January, which will mark 80 years since the day Soviet troops liberated the camp in 1945. Only Auschwitz survivors will speak, in what is likely to be the last big commemoration when many are still alive and…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel will not hand over the body of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar as part of a hostage-prisoner exchange deal, a government source stated Monday night.Earlier in the evening, Arab media outlet Al Arabiya/Al Hadath reported that Hamas requested Sinwar’s body be handed over during the first phase of the deal.”Israel will not hand over the body of arch-terrorist Sinwar to Hamas as part of the deal,” the source stated. “It won’t happen, period.”President Biden’s remarksBiden explained that there is a structure to free the hostages, halt the fighting, provide security to Israel, and allow a significant…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The UN’s top advisor on Palestine has seemingly suggested that the wildfires in Los Angeles and the ongoing Gaza War could be “connected”. Controversial lawyer Francesca Alabense, amplified an X post which dubbed the fires and the conflict “symptoms of the same disease”. Mondoweiss, a progressive, anti-Zionist news site based in New York, tweeted on Saturday: “The fires burning in Palestine and Los Angeles today are symptoms of the same disease: a system that values conquest over conservation, profit over people, and expansion over existence.” The post linked to an article on the website by Ahmad…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) has filed cases with the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Italian authorities, asking them to immediately detain Major General Ghassan Alian – who is currently in Rome, Italy – on counts of “genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes,” the organization announced on Monday.Maj. Gen. Alian, who is Israeli-Druze, heads the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the IDF unit responsible for overseeing civilian policy in the West Bank. COGAT has been responsible for coordinating humanitarian aid delivery into the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israel-Hamas…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel will not release any Hamas terrorist belonging to the Nukhba forces, which took part in the October 7 massacre of southern Israel, as part of a possible hostage deal, diplomatic sources told The Jerusalem Post on Monday evening. The list of terrorists expected to be released from Israeli prisons as part of the deal’s first phase does include some sentenced to life, the source added. However, none are part of the Nukhba forces that carried out the October 7 attacks.In addition, none of the 33 hostages expected to be released in the first phase of…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The budget deficit at the end of 2024 stood at 6.9% of GDP, according to a first estimate by the Finance Ministry, Accountant-General Yali Rothenberg reported Monday.This number is well below the approved ceiling of 7.7% set in mid-December when the 2024 budget was reopened for a fourth time as the government contended with the economic fallout of the Israel-Hamas War.Approval of the 2025 budget, and maintaining its deficit benchmark, would be pivotal for the economy, Rothenberg said. Its approval sends an important message to markets and keeps a stable debt-to-GDP ratio, he said. Because…