Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean sea bordering Israel. Israel withdrew from the strip in 2005, ceding direct control to the Palestinian Authority, but it maintains strict indirect control.
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News Israel Slammed by Media Watchdog for Attack on Gaza Journalists
A respected media watchdog group has slammed Israel for attacks in Gaza that injured three journalists — and called on the Jewish state to show more respect for the right of media outlets to cover the widening war. Israeli airstrikes hit buildings housing media outlets in Gaza, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported. At least three…
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Breaking News U.N. Chief Jets to Israel in Gaza Truce Bid
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to the Middle East on Saturday in a bid to end the fighting between Israel and Palestinians, alarmed at a serious escalation that includes a ground offensive by Israel, said a senior U.N. official. Israel intensified its land offensive in Gaza with artillery, tanks and gunboats on Friday and…
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Breaking News Israel Instensifies Gaza Fight — 300 Dead With Worse to Come
Israeli forces on Saturday pressed ahead with a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian militants kept firing rockets deep into Israel’s heartland, pushing the death toll past 300 in almost two weeks of conflict. Palestinian officials said 65 Palestinians, at least 15 of them under the age of 18, have been killed since…
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Opinion Hamas Has Nothing To Lose — and Why That’s So Dangerous for Israel
As the invading Israeli Defense Forces are consolidating their control of the border areas of Gaza, there are several important questions worth addressing. What are Israel’s military tactics? What is Israeli strategy? What are Hamas’s and do the two sides have an exit strategy in case events get of control? The IDF troops consist of…
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Life Where Are the Women Leaders in Wartime?
Gender democracy activist Anat Thon-Ashkenazy holds a 1325 pin in support of the UN resolution to bring women leaders into negotiations. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them,” Albert Einstein famously quipped. Yet, when it comes to the current crisis in Israel and Gaza, the…
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Breaking News Defiance and Fear Grips Battered Streets of Gaza as Israel Tanks Roll In
(Reuters) — Palestinians hunkered down in fear for their lives while Hamas militants urged defiance after Israel sent forces into the densely populated territory on Thursday after 10 days of cross-border fire. Residents largely abandoned the usually teeming streets after a fevered night of bombardment. Ships spitting machinegun fire drifted closer to the desert enclave’s…
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Opinion Why Israel Is Right To Launch Gaza Ground War To Root Out Terror
The ground offensive into the Gaza Strip that the IDF launched Thursday night represents the ultimate in asymmetric warfare. Israeli tanks, ground forces, artillery, drones, special tunnel detection equipment — all with massive air and naval cover — are moving deliberately west from the Gaza-Israel border fence in a methodical search for tunnels (eight unearthed…
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Breaking News Egypt Aims To Crush — Not Help — Islamists With Gaza Mediation Role
Egypt’s attempts to pressure Hamas into accepting a truce plan offering few concessions for the group to end the latest fighting with Israel show Cairo’s determination to finish the job it began at home – crushing Islamists it sees as a threat. Egypt has always regarded itself as the most effective mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian…
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