Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over two bodies of deceased Israeli hostages on Thursday, a day after the tenuous Gaza ceasefire was shaken by a series of deadly Israeli strikes across the enclave. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/hamas-hostage-handover/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #israel #gaza #palestinians
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan — at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz — criticized Germany over what he said was its ignorance of Israel’s “genocide” and attacks in the Gaza Strip. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/31/world/politics/turkey-germany-gaza-criticism/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #turkey #germany #israelhamaswar
Gaza’s fragile ceasefire was back on track Wednesday, after Israel said it would halt a series of airstrikes that briefly raised doubts about whether the U.S.-brokered deal would hold. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/30/world/israeli-army-ceasefire-gaza-strikes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #us #donaldtrump
Israeli planes launched strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Israel accused the militant group Hamas of violating a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/29/world/politics/israel-gaza-hamas-us-ceasefire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas
The Gaza ceasefire faces a myriad of disputes, but many Israelis and Palestinians are finding a common cause: locating, identifying and burying their dead. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/28/world/gazans-rubble-unmarked-graves/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians
The United Nations and France condemned Israeli fire near U.N. peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon, after an incident during which peacekeepers neutralized an Israeli reconnaissance drone. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/28/world/un-france-israel-peacekeepers-lebanon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #lebanon #drones #un #france #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar
Persuading Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to help fund Gaza's reconstruction is unlikely to be as easy as U.S President Donald Trump has claimed. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/27/world/politics/trump-gulf-rebuild-gaza/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas
Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel would determine which foreign forces it would allow to help secure Gaza under Donald Trump's plan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/27/world/politics/netanyahu-israel-foreign-troops-gaza/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
U.S. President Donald Trump warned Israel over annexing the West Bank while visiting Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced confidence that a U.S.-backed ceasefire in Gaza would hold. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/24/world/us-pressure-west-bank/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #westbank #jdvance #donaldtrump
The United States is considering a proposal for humanitarian aid delivery in Gaza that would replace the controversial U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/24/world/ghp-aid-operation-replacement/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #gaza #aid #food #us #un
Clearing the surface of Gaza of unexploded ordnance will likely take between 20 to 30 years, according to an aid group official who described the enclave as a "horrific, unmapped minefield." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/24/world/gaza-mine-clearing-30-years/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #gaza #palestinians #landmines
A bill applying Israeli law to the occupied West Bank, a move tantamount to annexation of land that Palestinians want for a state, has won preliminary approval from Israel's parliament. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/23/world/politics/israel-parliament-west-bank-annex/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #westbank
By persuading Hamas to accept U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza deal, Turkey has reasserted itself on the Middle East chessboard, to the dismay of Israel and Arab rivals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/22/world/politics/erdogan-trump-gaza-turkey/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #receptayyiperdogan #turkey #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #us #donaldtrump
The U.S. increased pressure on Hamas to disarm in the next phase of an already fragile Gaza ceasefire as President Donald Trump pushed to cement an end to the devastating conflict. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/22/world/politics/trump-hamas-gaza-truce/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #us #donaldtrump
Israeli settler violence has "skyrocketed” in the West Bank as extremists again disrupt the economically vital olive harvest in Palestinian communities, a United Nations official said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/22/world/israeli-settler-violence-olive-harvest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #westbank
U.S. envoys met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the aim to corral Israel and Hamas to get the Gaza ceasefire plan back on track after violence over the weekend threatened to derail the week-old truce. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/21/world/politics/us-diplomacy-gaza-truce/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans #jdvance #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
Relatives of the last Israeli hostages released from Gaza after two years in captivity have said their loved ones endured harrowing conditions, with some reportedly held in cages, pits or underground tunnels. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/world/relatives-gaza-hostages-conditions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
Israel said it had resumed enforcing a Gaza ceasefire after carrying out strikes on Hamas positions Sunday, having accused the group of targeting its troops in the most serious violence since the 9-day-old truce began. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/world/israel-gaza-strikes-hamas-ceasefire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #hamas #israelhamaswar #gaza #palestinians #middleeast #donaldtrump
The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain closed until further notice, Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/19/world/politics/israel-hamas-border-us-ceasefire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas
The United Nations' aid chief took stock of the monumental task of restoring basic necessities in the devastated Gaza Strip on Saturday, as Israel and Hamas exchanged more human remains. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/18/world/gaza-un-aid-chief/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #hamas #un
 
      
  
             
      
  
               
      
  
               
      
  
               
      
  
              