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 Meet the Jews defending Hamas
Almost all progressive Jewish groups condemned Saturday’s attack on Israeli civilians, but a handful cheered it on
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Opinion Everything I thought I knew about Israel and Gaza was wrong
The coming days and weeks will be awful — and Benjamin Netanyahu has no good options
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News Who is Hamas, the militant group that attacked Israel and controls Gaza?
The militant Islamist group that has ruled the Gaza Strip for the last 16 years distinguishes itself by projecting an image as a pragmatic actor alongside its commitment to the complete destruction of the State of Israel
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News A peace activist, a soldier: Stories of Americans missing or dead in Hamas invasion begin to emerge
American stories are taking shape as Israel strives to identify the hundreds of people who are dead and dozens who are missing in Saturday’s attack
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Opinion The American Jewish left is wrong about Palestinian ‘resistance’
If you think Hamas violence can bring Palestinian safety and freedom, keep watching the news
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News Israeli town of Ofakim cleared of terrorists, but blood and shock remain
In the city of 34,000, which was invaded by terrorists from Gaza on Saturday, one resident kept the terrorists out of a shelter using a broken bicycle to barricade the door – so they went next door and took a couple hostage for 20 hours
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Fast Forward ‘Nobody is helping us’: Israeli death toll at 700, as Hamas claims some 100 hostages
Families outraged at lack of information from government about people killed or kidnapped from outdoor rave in desert
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Opinion ‘Is it a war — or is it an operation?’ Thousands of miles from home, Israeli teenagers learn the devastating news
At a "shul-in" in New Jersey, they conked out in sleeping bags. Then they woke up and looked at their phones.
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Opinion Trump’s first picks are die-hard Israel supporters, mocking the pro-Palestinian protest vote
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Yiddish יוביליי־נומער פֿון „ביראָבידזשאַן“ באַערט אַמאָליקע מאָלערס און עטנישע פֿאַרשידנאַרטיקייטAnniversary issue of Birobidzhan features historic artists and ethnic diversity
דער זשורנאַל, גרויס ווי אַ גאַנץ בוך, נעמט אויך אַרײַן טײַגע־לידער און פֿאַקטאַזיע־ווערק.
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