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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Keir Starmer has been offered a place on the Gaza “peace board” set up by Donald Trump as part of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.The prime minister was asked to sit on the board by a senior member of the Trump administration. The Guardian has been told that Starmer is expected to accept but has not yet received a formal invitation, while conversations about the exact makeup of the board are continuing.Starmer has cultivated a good relationship with the US president, despite their differences of opinion on the UK’s decision to recognise the state…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The US-enabled Israeli genocide in Gaza has persisted for 27 months and sent shockwaves across the world. In its wake, two puzzles remain unsolved: Beyond the sheer shock of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, what motivates so much of the Israeli public to support their government’s genocidal annihilation of Palestinians and the destruction of Palestinian society? And why have the United States and key Western governments so enthusiastically supported Israel’s genocide and silenced public advocacy for Palestinian rights? In this powerful book, Hamid Dabashi answers these questions by analyzing Gaza in the wider context…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed JERUSALEM  — Israel’s Ministry of Health has ranked the Hadassah Medical Organization first in Jerusalem and second in Israel in a new report on the quality of care provided by Israeli hospitals’ internal medicine departments. The Ministry has also ranked the Jerusalem-based hospital system, which is owned by Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, first in Jerusalem in preventing internal medicine readmissions – one of the most important indicators of the quality of care – citing the in-depth, professional and comprehensive care the Hadassah Medical Organization gives its patients.To rank Israel’s hospitals, the Ministry compared…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed AMALLAH, January 13, 2026 (WAFA) – Governor of the Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) Yahya Shunnar on Tuesday discussed prospects for joint cooperation with Head of the German Representative Office in Palestine Anke Schlimm, during a meeting at the Authority’s headquarters in Ramallah, attended by Deputy Governor Mohammad Manasrah and several department directors. Shunnar briefed the German official on the current situation of the Palestinian banking sector and the challenges and crises it faces, particularly the shekel accumulation crisis and the correspondent banking relationship with Israeli banks. He outlined the policies and measures adopted by the Palestine…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Context The European Union and the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth, & Development Office funded a series of three national policy dialogues on “Promoting Universal Social Protection in Lebanon”. This series was convened by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI), in partnership with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The first dialogue on 12 March 2025 examined “The Sustainability of the Social Assistance System and its Linkages with the Humanitarian Assistance Sector”. The second dialogue on 10 April 2025 explored “Implementation of the New Pension Scheme Under Law 319: Challenges and Opportunities”.…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The prisons minister may justifiably say that temporary release for prisoners awaiting trial is a matter for an independent judiciary, but this by no means absolves the state of responsibility for the fate of those on hunger strike (Health of Palestine Action hunger strikers deteriorating, supporters say, 6 January).Given the almost unbelievable length of time the court system apparently requires before it can try these cases, it is open to the director of public prosecutions or the attorney general to notify the defence lawyers that if a fresh application for bail is now made, they will cooperate…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A top writers’ festival in Australia has been called off amid controversy over the cancellation of a scheduled appearance by a prominent Australian-Palestinian activist and author.The organisers of Adelaide Writers’ Week said on Tuesday that the event could no longer go ahead following a wave of speaker withdrawals and board resignations prompted by the removal of Randa Abdel-Fattah from the lineup.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIn a statement, the festival’s board said while it had disinvited Abdel-Fattah out of respect for the Jewish community in the wake of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A planned visit by a Jewish Labour MP to a school in his Bristol constituency was cancelled after a campaign by a pro-Palestine group, it has emerged.Damien Egan, the Labour MP for Bristol North East, had been booked to speak to students at Bristol Brunel academy, but the visit was called off by the school hours before it was due to happen.The cancellation took place in September but has been highlighted now after the communities secretary, Steve Reed, said a Jewish colleague was banned from visiting a school in his constituency amid concerns his presence would…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed “At the debate, Scott Wiener refused to call Israel’s indiscriminate killing of women and children in Gaza a genocide,” Julie Edwards, a spokesperson for Chan’s campaign, said in an email. “People getting killed didn’t move him, but boos at a forum did. This is about politics, not principle.” Chakrabarti, who previously served as chief of staff for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and worked on Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign, said the issue is about “moral clarity.” “Genocide shouldn’t be something you say yes or no to based on the reporter you are talking to or how your poll numbers…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed From near-daily Israeli strikes to a political deadlock over Hezbollah’s disarmament and deepening economic and financial distress, Lebanon is engulfed in a cascade of tangled crises, all made worse by mounting fears of yet another devastating war with Israel. While all Lebanese are affected, the country’s Shi’a community has borne a disproportionate share of the burden. Last year’s war displaced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in the south, the east, and Beirut’s southern suburbs, leaving neighborhoods and villages destroyed, with reconstruction impeded by the lack of funding and repeated Israeli attacks on building…