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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Rashid Bou Habib said that all of the “Lebanese components,” including Hezbollah, were committed to implementing the ceasefire in Lebanon in a Wednesday interview with Qatari state-funded news outlet Al Jazeera. “If Israel begins to violate the resolution, this means that it is not implementing it,” Bou Habib told Al Jazeera, adding that “everyone is committed to implementing it from all Lebanese components”. In the wake of the ceasefire, which went into effect at 4:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday, the Lebanese foreign minister told the Qatari media giant that Lebanon…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Good morning. At 4am local time on Wednesday, a ceasefire began between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. By that time, some displaced residents of Lebanon’s devastated south were already on their way back, many of them wondering as they travelled whether the homes they had fled were still there.The pause in hostilities has been broadly welcomed in Lebanon, Israel and beyond, both for those who have been exiled on either side of the border and as a step towards regional stability. There are even some optimistic claims that it might help bring about a ceasefire in…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon based Hezbollah militant group has come into effect and thousands of people from war-torn southern Lebanon have started to return to their homes as fear looms on both sides whether the ceasefire will hold. Israel continued its barrage of attacks on Beirut and in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 42 people until a ceasefire came into effect at 4am (local time) on Wednesday. The truce was brokered by the United States. Displaced people of Lebanon were seen driving stacked cars with personal belongings and returning to the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The IDF discovered gas masks, chemical materials, and sedatives in the possession of Hezbollah operatives two months ago, around the start of Israel’s incursion into Lebanon, suggesting that the terrorist organization had intended to use chemical weapons to abduct Israeli soldiers and civilians, Walla learned on Wednesday.This report comes shortly after the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon came into effect, also on Wednesday, where the IDF and Hezbollah will hold their fire for the next 60 days, after which the ceasefire will become permanent, according to the agreement.The ceasefire agreement concludes more than a year of…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA), published a ‘constitutional declaration’ on Wednesday stating that Rawhi Fattouh, chairman of the Palestinian National Council (PNC), will assume the position of interim President “if the position becomes vacant.”In the declaration, Abbas stipulated that if his position became vacant and the Legislative Council were “dysfunctional,” then Fattouh would assume the position of interim President for a period of no more than 90 days while elections were held.Abbas specified that if elections could not be held, the Palestinian Central Council (PCC) could choose to extend his term for…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed While Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a cease-fire in Lebanon, the war in Gaza seems far from over.On Tuesday night into Wednesday, as the cease-fire was being finalized, the Israeli military struck dozens of sites in Gaza that it said were Hamas military structures. The Israeli attacks killed at least 33 people and injured 134 more in Gaza over the period, according to the Gazan health ministry.Thirteen deaths came in an Israeli strike on Al-Tabin school in Gaza City, which has been operating as a shelter, according to Palestinian Civil Defense, which runs emergency response…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The French government has claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu has immunity from arrest warrants issued by the international criminal court for war crimes on the grounds that Israel is not an ICC member.The claim came soon after Netanyahu’s cabinet agreed to a French-backed ceasefire in Lebanon and is in contrast to Paris’s attitude towards last year’s ICC war crimes warrant issued against Vladimir Putin, another leader of a non-member country.After the court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, on Friday, France initially signalled that it would fulfil its obligations as a…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed For more than a year, the Israeli government has avoided holding itself to account for its failure to prevent the deadliest event in Israel’s history: the Hamas-led raid on Oct. 7, 2023.An independent commission, founded by survivors of the raid and relatives of Israelis who were killed and kidnapped, tried to fill that void on Tuesday, releasing a scathing report that blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top military commanders for years of faulty decisions that made Israel more vulnerable to invasion.Based on three months of interviews and public hearings, the commission’s report criticized the government’s…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Amos Schocken, Haaretz’s publisher, called Netanyahu’s government an ‘apartheid regime’ and Palestinian terrorists ‘freedom fighters.’ The Israeli government decided to boycott Haaretz, sparking a heated debate Amid a hot war between Israel and Iranian proxies on multiple fronts, another conflict is being fought in the Jewish state but with words. Creating a battle line between freedom of speech and the media’s role in political discourse, the Israeli government severed ties with Haaretz on November 24, following remarks by its publisher, Amos Schocken, during a speech in London. Schocken criticized the Israeli government for imposing an “apartheid…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Northern Israel’s residents share harrowing accounts of life under constant rocket fire from Hezbollah. Many have fled, while those who remain face destruction, fear, and uncertainty amid escalating violence along the border. Northern Israel, particularly areas near the Lebanese border, has been heavily impacted by the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah since October 2023. Communities like Metulla, Nahariya, and the Galilee region have endured relentless rocket attacks and escalating hostilities. Over 12,400 rockets have been launched from southern Lebanon, targeting civilian areas and causing widespread devastation. The situation has displaced thousands, strained local infrastructure, and left towns…