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NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by deliberately causing the mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.About 1.9 million people – 90% of Gaza’s population – have fled their homes over the past year, and 79% of the territory is under Israeli-issued evacuation orders, according to the UN.HRW’s report says this amounts to “forcible transfer” and that “evidence shows it has been systematic and part of a state policy”. It also says Israeli actions appear to “meet the definition of ethnic cleansing”.Israel said the report was…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureNew Israeli airstrike hits south Beirut after military evacuation orderLebanon’s state-run National News Agency has reported a “heavy strike” carried out with two missiles fired by an “enemy aircraft” in the neighbourhood of Bourj al-Barajneh in Beirut’s southern suburbs. The Israeli military says it has identified several buildings in the suburbs of Ghobeiry (see opening summary for more details) and Bourj al-Barajneh that the military plans to target as it claims Hezbollah targets are there.“For your safety and the safety of your family members, you…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Israel has intensified its air offensives on three fronts, launching dozens of new strikes in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria as negotiations for a ceasefire on its northern border reach a critical point.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said about 30 targets had been struck in the southern suburbs of Beirut in 48 hours and described continuing efforts to “dismantle and degrade” the military capabilities of the militant Islamist organisation.Analysts said the wave of raids could also be aimed at increasing pressure on Hezbollah as indirect talks continued.Eli Cohen, Israel’s energy minister, told Reuters an arrangement to end…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed “What nerve Yesilgöz has,” he remarked. Wilders’ far-right PVV stormed to victory in elections last November, doubling its seats and becoming the Netherlands’ largest party. The PVV was joined by the liberal VVD, the newly founded centrist NSC and populist BBB to form a coalition in July after more than seven months of talks. While the four governing parties broadly agree on tough immigration and integration policies, there are “notable differences” among them on specifics that have only sharpened after last week, said Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist at the University of Amsterdam. “NSC is significantly…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Canada’s foreign minister on Thursday expressed deep concern about “catastrophic” humanitarian conditions across Gaza and warned about “the life-threatening levels of acute malnutrition.” Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly cited a November. 8 report by the Famine Review Committee that found a strong likelihood that famine is occurring or imminent in areas within the northern Gaza Strip. The committee has previously found that 133,000 people in Gaza were facing catastrophic food insecurity. “This means that civilians – men, women and children – are dying because of the lack of humanitarian assistance allowed into Gaza,” she said in…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A skirmish involving Israel fans broke out in the stands of the Stade de France during a tense match between Israel and France’s men’s football teams, but a heavy police presence ensured a repeat of the serious violence in Amsterdam was avoided.The game had been designated as “high risk” after the hooliganism and antisemitism witnessed in the Netherlands before and after a Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv last week.The Israeli national anthem was booed by some in the crowd before kick-off and, within 10 minutes of the game starting, a small number…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed Next week Sen. Bernie Sanders will bring to the Senate floor several joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block certain offensive weapons sales to Israel, the independent Vermont senator announced in a statement on Wednesday.There is no longer any doubt that Netanyahu’s extremist government is in clear violation of US and international law as it wages a barbaric war against the Palestinian people in Gaza, his statement said.“Out of a population of 2.2 million, over 43,000 Palestinians have been killed and 102,000 injured – 60% of whom are women, children, or elderly people. Israel has destroyed…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed A UN special committee has said that Israeli policies and practices in Gaza are “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.The international court of justice (ICJ) is investigating a claim put forward by South Africa that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza is genocidal, and has ordered Israel to take…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed DAMASCUS, Syria — Israel carried out at least two airstrikes on a western neighborhood of Damascus and one of the capital’s suburbs on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding another 16, Syria’s state news agency said.The airstrikes on the Mazzeh neighborhood in Damascus and the suburb of Qudsaya, northwest of the capital, struck two buildings, the SANA news agency said. An Associated Press journalist at the scene in Mazzeh said that a five-story building was damaged by a missile that hit the basement.The Israeli military said it had hit infrastructure sites and command centers…

NepalIsrael.com auto goggle feed ReutersDonald Trump said Mike Huckabee would “work tirelessly to bring about peace in the Middle East”For now, Mike Huckabee seems to be keeping his cards close to his chest.Shortly after being announced as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for US ambassador to Israel, the former Republican governor of Arkansas said: “I won’t make the policy. I will carry out the policy of the president.”But he did give an indication of what he expected that policy to be, citing the previous Trump administration’s decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem and to recognise the occupied Golan Heights…