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
Can we please, in the name of humanity, stop this motherfucker?
@aral@mastodon.ar.al And who stops the terrorists of #hamas? You know they have massacred a whole family recently, right? ...
Lisa Melton
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#Netanyahu orders Israeli army to carry out 'powerful' strikes in #Gaza
#Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he has ordered the army to immediately carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza, a new test for the tenuous US brokered #ceasefire.
The order from Netanyahu follows heightened tensions, as Israel reported #Hamas firing on its forces in southern Gaza & after Hamas returned a set of remains that Israel said belonged to a hostage recovered earlier in the war.
#Netanyahu orders Israeli army to carry out 'powerful' strikes in #Gaza
#Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he has ordered the army to immediately carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza, a new test for the tenuous US brokered #ceasefire.
The order from Netanyahu follows heightened tensions, as Israel reported #Hamas firing on its forces in southern Gaza & after Hamas returned a set of remains that Israel said belonged to a hostage recovered earlier in the war.
#Netanyahu called the return a “clear violation” of the #ceasefire agreement, which requires #Hamas to return all Israeli hostage remains as soon as possible.
In a sign of the fragility of the ceasefire, #Israel troops were shot at in the southern city of #Rafah on Tuesday & returned fire, according to an Israeli military official….
There are still 13 bodies of #hostages in #Gaza. Hamas said Tuesday it has recovered the body of a hostage that it plans to hand over this evening.
#Netanyahu orders Israeli army to carry out 'powerful' strikes in #Gaza
#Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he has ordered the army to immediately carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza, a new test for the tenuous US brokered #ceasefire.
The order from Netanyahu follows heightened tensions, as Israel reported #Hamas firing on its forces in southern Gaza & after Hamas returned a set of remains that Israel said belonged to a hostage recovered earlier in the war.
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
Adrian
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Hamas has begun rounding up Gazans and shooting them, just to prove its still in charge.
Where is the outrage? Where are the campus protests demanding "Hamas out of Gaza"? Where are the memes, the videos, and articles?
Where is the demand that Gazans be free?
The answer is sadly that it's not about Gazans for many of these people. It never was for them. It was about demonizing Israel and terrorizing Jews. For them, the fight will continue, Gazans be damned.
But for me, I do care about the Gazans and the cause for Palestinian liberation and independence.
Gaza must be rebuilt, and the opportunity for a truly Free Palestine must mean that there's no room for oppression by cruel terrorist organizations who use people as pawns.
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
Lasting peace in Gaza will require a large Arab-led peacekeeping force supported by U.S. troops stationed nearby for coordination, security and rapid response — but not direct combat inside Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/23/world/no-gaza-peace-without-us-troops/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #israel #gaza #hamas #idf #usmilitary #defense
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
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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"One of the things that I think hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves that I want to highlight is Israel’s refusal to release Marwan Barghouti, the most famous Palestinian prisoner. And the reason I think it’s so significant is that I think it exposes the lie that Israel’s fundamental problem is with Hamas, that Israel’s fundamental goal is to destroy Hamas."
~ Peter Beinart
#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #Hamas
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https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/it-was-never-about-hamas
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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"It shows that actually Israel’s strategy is not as much focused on destroying Hamas as it is on subjugating the Palestinian people and really trying to control as much land as possible with as few Palestinians on it as possible.
Now, in saying that, I think that Hamas is not the fundamental object of Israel’s strategy, I’m not suggesting that Hamas hasn’t committed terrible crimes. It has."
"But to say that Hamas has committed grave crimes is very different than saying that Hamas is really at the core of this conflict between Israel and the Palestinians."
"At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza had been held in a notorious detention centre already facing allegations of torture and unlawful deaths in custody, officials from Gaza’s health ministry have told the Guardian."
~ Lorenzo Tondo and Seham Tantesh
"It shows that actually Israel’s strategy is not as much focused on destroying Hamas as it is on subjugating the Palestinian people and really trying to control as much land as possible with as few Palestinians on it as possible.
Now, in saying that, I think that Hamas is not the fundamental object of Israel’s strategy, I’m not suggesting that Hamas hasn’t committed terrible crimes. It has."
"But to say that Hamas has committed grave crimes is very different than saying that Hamas is really at the core of this conflict between Israel and the Palestinians."
"It shows that actually Israel’s strategy is not as much focused on destroying Hamas as it is on subjugating the Palestinian people and really trying to control as much land as possible with as few Palestinians on it as possible.
Now, in saying that, I think that Hamas is not the fundamental object of Israel’s strategy, I’m not suggesting that Hamas hasn’t committed terrible crimes. It has."
"One of the things that I think hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves that I want to highlight is Israel’s refusal to release Marwan Barghouti, the most famous Palestinian prisoner. And the reason I think it’s so significant is that I think it exposes the lie that Israel’s fundamental problem is with Hamas, that Israel’s fundamental goal is to destroy Hamas."
~ Peter Beinart
#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #Hamas
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https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/it-was-never-about-hamas