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
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
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
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
As we’ve seen in Israel, Japan’s future may be shaped by unstable coalition politics dominated by multiple small parties. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/17/japan/japan-parliament-begins-its-knessetization/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #sanaetakaichi #liberaldemocraticparty #ldp #komeito #israel #benjaminnetanyahu #knesset #likud
If a durable peace is to take root following Donald Trump's plan for Gaza, he will have to keep pressure on the man whose support he'll need in the next phases of his plan: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/world/politics/trump-netanyahu-peace-deal-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #us #donaldtrump #gaza #palestinians #israel #israelhamaswar #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
U.S. President Donald Trump hailed a "tremendous day for the Middle East" as he and other leaders signed a declaration meant to cement a ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/world/politics/middle-east-gaza-declaration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #middleeast #israel #hamas #israelhamaswar #us #benjaminnetanyahu
The Gaza war is over and the Middle East is going to "normalize," according to Donald Trump. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/13/world/politics/trump-gaza-israel-hostages/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #us #donaldtrump
Hamas has called Donald Trump a "recipe for chaos." But one extraordinary phone call helped persuade the group that he might be able to hold Israel to a peace deal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/11/world/politics/hamas-trust-trump-focus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #hamas #hamasisraelwar #israel #benjaminnetanyahu #gaza #middleeast #palestinians
The Israel-Hamas ceasefire, brokered by Trump, offers fleeting hope, but its success depends on broader regional stability amid ongoing risks from Iran and its militias. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/10/world/gaza-deal-might-heal-the-middle-east/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #us #donaldtrump #benjaminnetanyahu
Despite its potentially historic nature, the rushed Gaza deal signed in Egypt on Thursday leaves a host of unresolved issues that could still trip up implementation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/10/world/politics/gaza-deal-tough-questions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #us #donaldtrump #benjaminnetanyahu
Israel has begun implementing a ceasefire deal in Gaza, after it reached an agreement with Hamas for the Palestinian militant group to release all the hostages it holds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/10/world/politics/gaza-ceasefire-hostage-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #us #donaldtrump #benjaminnetanyahu
Seeking an unlikely Nobel Peace Prize and keen to bolster his legacy, Trump's approach to Gaza has been different to the blank check he has previously been regarded as giving key ally Israel. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/09/world/politics/how-trump-gaza-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #us #donaldtrump
Talks to end the war in Gaza were bolstered by the arrival of senior figures from Israel and the United States on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/09/world/politics/gaza-talks-progress/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
Hamas is looking to secure a "fair hostage exchange” as part of a deal with Israel to end the two-year war that’s devastated Gaza and destabilized much of the Middle East. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/08/world/politics/hamas-israel-talks-hostages/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
Israel is marking the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack as Hamas and Israeli negotiators hold indirect talks to end the two-year war in the Gaza Strip under a U.S.-proposed peace plan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/07/world/society/israel-october-7-anniversary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu
Delegations from Israel and Hamas have begun indirect negotiations in Egypt on U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to halt the war in Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/07/world/politics/gaza-talks-sticking-points-israel-hamas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #middleeast #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #egypt #us #donaldtrump
Hamas on Sunday called for a swift start to a hostage-prisoner exchange with Israel, as negotiators from both sides headed to Egypt for crucial talks aimed at ending the nearly two-year war in Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/world/hamas-israel-gaza-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #hamas #israelhamaswar #middleeast #benjaminnetanyahu #gaza #palestinians #donaldtrump #us
 
      
  
             
      
  
               
      
  
               
      
  
              