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WORLD
Apr 16, 2018
Israel foils new Gaza tunnel, lifts veil on detection lab
Israel said on Sunday it destroyed a guerrilla tunnel from the Gaza Strip and gave rare details on a classified military laboratory spearheading efforts to foil the cross-border digs.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 15, 2018
Israel says it destroyed Hamas-dug tunnel running under border with Egypt
Israel said on Sunday it had destroyed a cross-border attack tunnel that ran from Gaza into Israel and Egypt dug by Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave, and that it would destroy all attack tunnels by year's end.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 18, 2017
Hamas agrees to dissolve its Gaza administration, push for Palestinian unity government
Hamas has agreed to dissolve the administration that runs Gaza, it said on Sunday, a major step toward handing control of the enclave to a Palestinian unity government after a decade of bitter rivalry with President Mahmoud Abbas.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 26, 2017
Hamas executes three Palestinians over killing it says was ordered by Israel
Gaza's ruling Hamas movement executed three Palestinians on Thursday convicted of killing a commander in the Islamist group's armed wing while acting on Israel's orders.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 22, 2017
Hamas condemns three Palestinians over commander's killing allegedly ordered by Israel
Gaza's ruling Hamas movement delivered death sentences on Sunday to three Palestinians it ruled had taken part in what it said was an Israeli-directed assassination of one of the Islamist group's senior commanders.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 9, 2015
Netanyahu denies report he's backed off two-state solution
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denied reports on Sunday he has backed away from a 2009 commitment to seek a two-state peaceful solution with the Palestinians.
WORLD
Feb 1, 2015
Egyptian court bans Hamas' armed wing, lists as terrorist organization
An Egyptian court on Saturday banned the armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas and listed it as a terrorist organization, a ruling in keeping with a systematic crackdown on Islamists by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2015
Palestinian Authority still doesn't want a state
Last week's failed attempt by the Palestinian Authority to obtain recognition from the U.N. Security Council has mostly disappeared from the world's front pages. Indications are that PA President Mahmoud Abbas did not want the resolution to pass.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2014
Is Israel headed for 'an abyss'?
Settlement policies, military actions and now the Israeli national election in March and the U.S. elections in 2016 threaten to isolate Israel totally from the world of democracies.
WORLD
Dec 23, 2014
Hamas test-fires rockets Into Mediterranean in show of strength, thanks Iran for weapons
Hamas test-fired rockets from the Gaza Strip into the Mediterranean Sea for the second time in nine days in a show of military strength months after its devastating war with Israel.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 19, 2014
Palestinians kill four in Jerusalem synagogue attack
Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four worshippers in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city.
WORLD
Oct 2, 2014
New York transit authority sued for denying anti-Islamic bus ad
An anti-Islam group filed a civil rights lawsuit against New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Wednesday for refusing to run a "Hamas Killing Jews" advertisement on city busses, the group's attorney said.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2014
Did Hamas emerge victorious in the latest war?
This summer's war in Gaza shook the status quo by making Israel look worse and by breathing life back into Hamas. It did not, however, resolve any part of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 12, 2014
Abbas will fail at U.N. without Hamas' backing
How Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reconciles three critical but faltering relationships — with Hamas, the U.S. and Israel — will determine whether Israelis and Palestinians resume talking or fighting in the months ahead.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2014
Can Palestine win the peace?
The tremendous sympathy and support Palestinians received from international observers because of the high price they paid during their 51-day war with Israel will be useless if the leaders of Hamas and Fatah fail to maintain a united front.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 1, 2014
U.S. media coverage reveals a pro-Israel bias
Imagine Boston, including its coast, hemmed in by a relentlessly hostile superior power ready to attack it anytime from air, land and sea. Boston is about a third of the Gaza Strip in land area, but the same in population density.
WORLD
Aug 20, 2014
Gaza war rages on; Hamas says Israel tried to kill its military chief
Israeli airstrikes killed 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including the wife and infant son of Hamas' military leader, Mohammed Deif, in what the group said Wednesday was an attempt to assassinate him after a cease-fire collapsed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 14, 2014
Israel said to be moving troops to Gaza border as truce expiry nears
Israel moved troops to the Gaza Strip border, Israeli newspapers reported, as the midnight expiry of a three-day truce drew near without word of an extension.
WORLD
Aug 13, 2014
U.K. says it will suspend some Israel arms exports if Gaza truce fails
Britain said on Tuesday it would suspend 12 licences to export military items to Israel, including tank, aircraft and radar parts, if hostilities with Hamas in Gaza resumed, citing concerns the exports may be used to breach international laws.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 12, 2014
U.N. names panel to investigate alleged war crimes in Gaza
The United Nations on Monday named three experts to an international commission of inquiry into possible human rights violations and war crimes committed by both sides during Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

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A woman passes an "akichi" (vacant lot) in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. The capital is littered with such small lots in part because of Japan's aging and shrinking population.
Dealing with rising land vacancies as Japan shrinks