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
Not an assault. Genocide.
One that the UK – for which the BBC is the propaganda channel – is complicit in.
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

Israel beruft weitere Reservisten für Gaza-Offensive ein
Israels Pläne für eine Einnahme von Gaza-Stadt nehmen konkrete Formen an: Die Armee berief dafür 50.000 zusätzliche Reservisten ein. Den neuen Vorschlag für eine Waffenruhe ließ die Netanjahu-Regierung weiter unbeantwortet.
Israel beruft weitere Reservisten für Gaza-Offensive ein
Israels Pläne für eine Einnahme von Gaza-Stadt nehmen konkrete Formen an: Die Armee berief dafür 50.000 zusätzliche Reservisten ein. Den neuen Vorschlag für eine Waffenruhe ließ die Netanjahu-Regierung weiter unbeantwortet.
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
Gaza: le Hamas a accepté une nouvelle proposition de cessez-le-feu, Nétanyahou n’a pas encore réagi
«La balle est désormais dans le camp israélien», a déclaré lundi le directeur des services de renseignement égyptiens, dont le pays fait partie des médiateurs. Le premier ministre israélien estime pour sa part que le #Hamas est sous une «pression atomique».
Par Agence France-Presse, La rédaction de Mediapart › https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/190825/gaza-le-hamas-accepte-une-nouvelle-proposition-de-cessez-le-feu-netanyahou-n-pas-encore-reagi?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapart
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

Report: Former Biden officials refute Israel's claims that Hamas stole aid in Gaza.
They say there was “no evidence of substantial Hamas diversion", &, contrary to Israeli claims, theft was “primarily the work of criminal gangs”.
The IDF never told us "that Hamas was physically diverting US-funded goods."
Israel used the false claims about Hamas to justify imposing the CIA-related GHF - at whose sites 1500 Gazans have been slaughtered.
Report: Former Biden officials refute Israel's claims that Hamas stole aid in Gaza.
They say there was “no evidence of substantial Hamas diversion", &, contrary to Israeli claims, theft was “primarily the work of criminal gangs”.
The IDF never told us "that Hamas was physically diverting US-funded goods."
Israel used the false claims about Hamas to justify imposing the CIA-related GHF - at whose sites 1500 Gazans have been slaughtered.

Israel: We can’t allow Palestinian journalists to remain alive in Gaza because all the Palestinian journalists are #Hamas.
Western #journalists: Okay so let us in, that way there can be journalists in Gaza who aren’t Hamas.
Israel:
Israel: No.
#Gaza#SaveGaza#StopIsrael#SanctionIsrael#BDS
#palestine#Israel#Politics#Genocide#PeaceNow#StopTheWar#CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
Israel: We can’t allow Palestinian journalists to remain alive in Gaza because all the Palestinian journalists are #Hamas.
Western #journalists: Okay so let us in, that way there can be journalists in Gaza who aren’t Hamas.
Israel:
Israel: No.
#Gaza#SaveGaza#StopIsrael#SanctionIsrael#BDS
#palestine#Israel#Politics#Genocide#PeaceNow#StopTheWar#CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
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
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