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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Fundraisers collecting for Palestinian civilians in Gaza are seeing a “catastrophic” drop-off in donations since the ceasefire was announced in October.Donations collected by volunteers and funnelled to needy families living in temporary shelters and struggling with illness, hunger and malnutrition have been harder to raise since then, according to organisers, many of whom have been running volunteer initiatives for Palestinians in Gaza on third-party crowdfunding platforms over the past two years.Megan Hall, based in Australia, runs 95 such mutual aid funds across social media accounts for individual families in Gaza, and has raised more than $200,000…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The European Union pressed Thursday to bolster reform of the Palestinian Authority, as Brussels hosted 60 delegations to discuss reconstruction and governance in Gaza after the US-brokered peace plan. The 27-nation bloc, the Palestinians’ biggest financial backer, is looking to play a more prominent role after being left largely on the sidelines of US President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war. “Our aim is to strengthen governance, build a more resilient economy, stabilize finances, improve services for the population, and create conditions for future effective governance across all territories,” said EU commissioner for the…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Singapore will impose financial sanctions on four Israelis and bar them from entering the city-state, its foreign affairs ministry announced on Friday, accusing them of “egregious acts of extreme violence” against Palestinians in the West Bank.The ministry said actions committed in the West Bank by Meir Mordechai Ettinger, Elisha Yered, Ben-Zion Gopstein and Baruch Marzel were unlawful and had jeopardised the prospects for a two-state solution in Palestine.”As a firm supporter of international law and the two-state solution, Singapore opposes any unilateral attempts to change facts on the ground through acts which are illegal under international…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Shin Bet Director David Zini told ministers the proposed law would be “a highly deterrent tool.” When asked whether it might prompt terrorists to kidnap Israelis, he said kidnappings had occurred before and that “the law provides deterrence.”Shouting and physical confrontation among lawmakers during debate on death penalty (Video: Knesset Channel)A representative for the IDF said IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir sees “no obstacle” to a death penalty law, though the army supports allowing judicial discretion rather than making the sentence mandatory. Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs said this question — mandatory versus discretionary…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed There was never going to be a phase two, the ceasefire was the strategy thecradle.coThe Guardian view on devastation in Gaza: the world wants to move on, but Palestinians can’t | Editorial The GuardianOn the ground in Gaza: It’s impossible to imagine people still living here – yet some do Sky NewsLetter from Mideast: Two tables, one war: life amid ceasefire in Israel and Gaza XinhuaPalestinians gather by a fire, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the northern Gaza Strip Reuters Connect The post”There was never going to be a phase two, the ceasefire was the strategy – thecradle.co”…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that there will not be a Palestinian state, even at the cost of normalization with Saudi Arabia, during an interview aired on Thursday evening. “There will not be a Palestinian state. It’s very simple: it will not be established,” the premier said in the wide-ranging interview with Abu Ali Express, a popular local Telegram channel. Asked by the interviewer if his opposition holds even if it jeopardizes normalization with Riyadh — which insists on a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood in exchange for such ties – Netanyahu said: “The answer is:…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Justice Minister Yariv Levin on Thursday officially submitted his nomination for retired district court judge Yosef Ben-Hamo to head the ongoing investigation into the former IDF military advocate general, despite the nomination not conforming to a High Court order. Levin announced the appointment earlier this week, following a ruling by the High Court of Justice on Sunday allowing him to make the appointment, provided the appointee is a “senior public servant,” which Ben-Hamo is not. The retired judge, now appointed, will have the authority to “oversee and inspect” the criminal investigation of the Sde Teiman leak affair,…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 33 people and injured many more, according to medical officials, in one of the most serious escalations of violence since the US-backed ceasefire came into effect last month.Officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said they received the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five children, after four Israeli airstrikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people. In Gaza City, medical officials said two airstrikes killed 16 people, including seven children and three women.Israel said it launched the attacks after its soldiers came under fire in Khan Younis on Wednesday,…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Prosecutors filed charges Thursday against a 22-year-old from Beersheba suspected of spying for Iran during his mandatory military service. The suspect, Rafael Reuveni, allegedly maintained contact with an Iranian intelligence agent since September. The handler recruited him to take videos in a park near his home, and photograph a bus station and a shopping mall in the southern city, according to the indictment. He was arrested in late October by police, based on intelligence collected by the Shin Bet, and was indicted in the Beersheba District Court on charges of maintaining contact with a foreign agent…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed The Qatari Foreign Ministry issued condemnations on Thursday for three separate incidents earlier in the week. First, the Foreign Ministry said that Qatar “condemns the entry of the Israeli occupation’s Prime Minister, along with several ministers and officials from the occupation government, into the occupied Syrian territories. Qatar considers this a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the sisterly Syrian Arab Republic, a flagrant breach of international law, and a serious threat to regional security.” The statement then “called on the international community to take urgent action to comply with international legitimacy, particularly the 1974 cease-fire…