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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Collboni, set to visit Yad Vashem and the Palestinian Authority, canceled his trip after the rejection. His entry request via the ETA system, which pre-screens travel from visa-exempt countries, was denied due to his anti-Israel statements, a decision made by the Population and Immigration Authority, acting Interior Minister Yariv Levin, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and National Security Council head Tzachi Hanegbi. In late May, Collboni’s Socialist-led council voted to cut “all institutional ties with the current Israeli government until human rights in Gaza are respected,” reversing his own September 2024 decision to restore Tel Aviv ties,…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The government and the Israel Defense Forces are currently moving resolutely ahead with plans to conquer Gaza City, with the military having begun the process of calling up 60,000 reservists to participate in or support the new offensive. As part of the operation, dubbed Gideon’s Chariots B, the IDF intends to evacuate Gaza City of its estimated one million residents and relocate them south of the Netzarim Corridor, between the southern Gazan cities of Khan Younis and Rafah. Such a complex operation, both to conquer Gaza City and to move such a massive population, will inevitably…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed In Israel’s most prolonged and grueling war, triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on the country’s south, the Israel Defense Forces’ heavy reliance on its reserve forces has become clearer than ever. Among those answering the call are hundreds of citizens over the age of 50, stepping up to help ease the military’s growing manpower strain. Normally, soldiers bow out of reserve duty at age 40, officers at 45, and those in special roles — including positions like drivers — at 49, making reserve duty rare for older individuals. According to recent IDF statistics, approximately…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has instructed negotiations to begin for the release of all remaining hostages and an end to the war in Gaza on terms “acceptable to Israel”.Netanyahu told Israeli troops on Thursday night that his cabinet had also approved plans for a massive assault on Gaza City in the north of the territory, despite widespread international and domestic opposition. Hamas agreed to a proposal drawn up by Qatari and Egyptian mediators for a 60-day ceasefire on Monday, which according to Qatar would see the release of half of the remaining…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Britain and France were among 21 countries to sign a joint statement Thursday calling Israel’s approval of a major settlement project in the West Bank “unacceptable and a violation of international law.” Israel approved the plans for the roughly 12-square-kilometer (five-square-mile) parcel of land known as E1 just east of Jerusalem on Wednesday. “We condemn this decision and call for its immediate reversal in the strongest terms,” said the statement of foreign ministers, whose signatories also included Australia, Canada and Italy. Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia,…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found.At that time 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks, according to health authorities in Gaza, a…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed ReutersIsrael’s military says it has warned medical officials and international organisations to prepare for the planned evacuation of Gaza City’s one million residents ahead of an offensive to occupy it.The officials were told that “adjustments” were being made to hospitals in southern Gaza to receive patients, a statement said.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry rejected “any step that would undermine what remains of the health system”. The UN and aid groups have also vowed to stay to help those who cannot or choose not to move.Meanwhile, Palestinians said there had been heavy bombardment in eastern areas of the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed These included the foreign ministers of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the U.K., and European Commission Vice-President Kaja Kallas. The reprimand came as Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy summoned Israel’s ambassador to the U.K. to the Foreign Office. “Today, the Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom was summoned to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office,” a Foreign Office spokesperson said in a separate statement on Thursday. “Her Excellency Tzipi Hotovely was summoned in response to the Israeli Higher…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed An Israeli operation to occupy Gaza City would be a “death sentence” for the remaining living Israeli hostages held in Gaza, relatives of the hostages have said, as the Red Cross and UN warned of a looming catastrophe for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living there.Opposition to a new operation – repeatedly “approved” by Israeli figures in recent days – is growing inside Israel and internationally. Calling for an immediate ceasefire, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned of the “massive death and destruction that a military operation against Gaza would inevitably cause”.Christian Cardon, the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel keeps up military pressure on Gaza City ahead of planned offensivePeter BeaumontHas Israel begun its offensive to conquer Gaza City or is it hype? Following several weeks of threats of a new large-scale offensive, strongly opposed by the majority of the international community, Israeli officials have daily made announcements saying the plan to conquer Gaza City has been “approved”. It has been approved by the IDF, by the security cabinet, by defence minister Israel Katz. Later today, in an event with the Israeli military, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will proffer his “approval”. How many times,…