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Israel to amend budget, war in Gaza direct cost at $246 million daily

October 25, 2023 admin

File picture of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said the national budget for the year was no longer relevant | Photo Credit: AP Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday the 2023-2024 national budget was “no longer relevant” given the Gaza war and would be amended, and sounded unfazed by S&P Global’s downgrade…

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Israel-Hamas war, Day 17 LIVE updates | Biden, key Western leaders urge Israel to protect civilians

October 23, 2023 admin

Leaders of the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Britain on Sunday underscored their support for Israel and its right to defend itself, but also urged it to adhere to international humanitarian law and protect civilians Source link

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143 people, including two Nepalese, fly out of Israel under ‘Operation Ajay’

October 22, 2023 admin

File image of Indian passengers who came back to India from Tel Aviv under ‘Operation Ajay’. | Photo Credit: ANI A special flight carrying 143 persons, including two Nepalese citizens and four infants, wanting to leave Israel amidst the Israel-Hamas conflict, left for India on Sunday as part of ‘Operation Ajay’. It was the sixth…

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Israel-Hamas war updates | Second aid convoy enters Gaza Strip from Egypt, says UN official

October 22, 2023 admin

Hezbollah’s escalating attacks on Israel risk “dragging Lebanon into a war”, Israel’s military said Sunday, after renewed cross-border exchanges of fire that have raised fears of a wider conflict. The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is allied with Hamas, which touched off the latest violence with a bloody October 7 rampage in Israel that killed at…

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Gaza | Between occupation and the deep blue sea

October 21, 2023 admin

When the state of Israel was declared in May 1948 in Palestine, five Arab countries attacked the newly created state, launching the first Arab-Israeli war. In the subsequent months, some 7,00,000 Arabs from Palestine, mostly from areas that became part of the Jewish state, were uprooted from their homes. Most of them took refuge in…

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Meta, Google quit tech summit over organizer’s Israel remarks

October 20, 2023 admin

The logo for Meta (R) (formerly Facebook) and the Google logo. | Photo Credit: AFP Meta and Google have pulled out of the Web Summit, one of the tech sector’s biggest annual events, after the organizer criticized Israel’s actions following the Hamas attacks, the companies said on Friday. A spokesman for Meta confirmed to AFP…

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U.S. President Biden wraps up visit to wartime Israel with warning against being ‘consumed’ by rage

October 19, 2023 admin

President Joe Biden swept into wartime Israel for a 7 1/2-hour visit Wednesday that produced a heaping dose of vocal support, a deal to get limited humanitarian aid into Gaza from Egypt, likely by the end of the week, and a plea for Israelis not to allow rage over the deadly Hamas attack to consume…

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Israel-Hamas war, day 10 LIVE updates | Would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza again, says Biden

October 16, 2023 admin

Joe Biden considering trip to Israel in the coming days; says would be big mistake to occupy Gaza U.S. President Joe Biden is considering a trip to Israel in the coming days but nothing has been finalised, a senior administration official said Sunday. The news comes as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been…

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Israel-Hamas War | ‘Mass displacement’ towards southern Gaza, says U.N.

October 15, 2023 admin

A truck transports a Palestinian family and their belongings to Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel’s order to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip has triggered “mass displacement” towards the south of the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations said on October 15. Israel has warned 1.1…

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Kidnapped Israeli Woman’s Landlord Allegedly Demands Rent, Threatens To Throw Her Belongings

October 14, 2023 admin

Many were abducted from the Israeli festival on Saturday. A landlord in Israel has allegedly demanded the roommate of a young woman, who was kidnapped by Hamas operatives at a music festival, to pay her half of the rent, or he’ll remove all her belongings from their apartment. According to the New York Post, 27-year-old…

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