Footage from Gaza's largest city, which Israel plans to seize as part of an expanded military offensive, showed women and young children among the chaotic jostle of dozens clamoring and shouting for food. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/24/world/palestinians-despair-un-famine-gaza/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #hamas #israelhamaswar #gaza #palestinians #middleeast
The United Nations officially declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming "systematic obstruction of aid" by Israel, hours after Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to destroy the territory's largest city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/world/gaza-famine-un-declaration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #israelhamaswar #hunger #un #hamas
Israel will immediately resume talks for the release of all hostages held in the Gaza Strip and an end to the nearly 2-year-old war, but on terms acceptable to it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/world/politics/netanyahu-gaza-negotiations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #israelhamaswar #benjaminnetanyahu #palestinians #hamas
Israel’s military announced the first steps of an operation to take over Gaza City, calling up tens of thousands of reservists while the government considered a new ceasefire proposal to pause nearly two years of war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/world/israel-military-gaza-city/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expands the war in the Gaza Strip, some reservists are growing more disillusioned with the political leaders sending them back into battle. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/world/politics/netanyahu-gaza-war-reservists/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
Israel is studying Hamas' response to a proposal for a 60-day ceasefire and release of half the hostages still held in Gaza, though one source said all Israeli captives must be freed for the war to end. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/world/politics/israel-hamas-gaza-truce-hostages/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
Rights groups said the U.S. State Department's decision to stop visitor visas for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip will harm wounded children seeking medical treatment on short-term U.S. visas. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/world/us-charity-visas-gazans-kids/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #us #donaldtrump #lauraloomer
Hamas said it has agreed to a deal proposed by Qatar and Egypt to pause the militant group’s war with Israel in Gaza, fueling optimism that a long-awaited breakthrough in negotiations could be close. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/world/hamas-gaza-truce-egypt-qatar/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #israelhamaswar #hamas #terrorism #gaza #palestinians
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Sunday to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to expand operations in the Gaza Strip, rather than attempt to negotiate an end to the war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/world/protest-israel-gaza-city-operation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
The U.S. government said it is suspending visitor visas for Gazans after a far-right influencer with the ear of Trump complained that wounded Palestinians had been allowed to seek medical treatment in the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/17/world/us-visas-gazans-influencer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #lauraloomer #israel #gaza #immigration #middleeast #hamas #israelhamaswar #donaldtrump #us #marcorubio
Gaza residents will be provided with tents and other shelter equipment starting from Sunday ahead of relocating them from combat zones to the south of the enclave "to ensure their safety," the Israeli military said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/17/world/israeli-military-relocate-gaza-residents/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #israel #gaza #hamas #middleeast
Students in Gaza have continued music classes from displacement camps and shattered buildings even after Israel's bombardments forced them to abandon schools in the city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/world/society/gaza-music-therapy-children/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #israelhamaswar #gaza #palestinians #children #mentalhealth #music
Boxes of Gaza-bound aid turned back by Israel languish in warehouses as exasperated drivers and U.N. officials criticize delays in sending food and medicine to the enclave. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/world/gaza-aid-shipments-delay/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #egypt #un #who #aid
Israel's military pounded Gaza City prior to a planned takeover, with another 123 people killed in the last 24 hours. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/14/world/israel-gaza-city-24-hours/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
A social media clip of a Palestinian mother reuniting with her children in Canada has been used by some pro-Israeli critics to deny claims of starvation in Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/13/world/politics/palestinian-mother-gaza-starvation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hunger #famine #misinformation
Israeli planes and tanks overnight bombardment of Gaza City have killed at least 11 people, as Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya arrives in Cairo for talks to revive a U.S.-backed ceasefire plan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/13/world/politics/israel-gaza-hamas-cairo-ceasefire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
A growing willingness among Israeli news media to critically explore the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has all but disappeared in recent weeks after Hamas released videos of two emaciated Israeli hostages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/world/politics/hamas-hostage-video-israel-gaza-aid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, is "in denial" about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/world/politics/australia-albanese-netanyahu-gaza/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #australia #anthonyalbanese #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #benjaminnetanyahu #newzealand
The "Pele" of Palestinian soccer hoped to keep scoring goals until he was 50. An Israeli tank shell dashed that dream a decade early, his family said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/08/11/soccer/family-remembers-palestinian-soccer-great/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #soccer #gaza #israel #israelhamaswar #hamas #suleimanalobeid #uefa
Israel's military said it targeted and killed a Hamas cell leader posing as an Al Jazeera journalist in an airstrike on Gaza City on Sunday, a claim condemned by the Qatari broadcaster. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/world/israel-al-jazeera-journalist-hamas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #aljazeera #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu