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 Biden can neither ignore nor address Israeli-Palestinian violence
As President Biden is preparing to engage in talks with Republican leaders on a bold infrastructure package, a rash of events in the Middle East is threatening to pull the U.S. back into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Biden administration immediately condemned “in the strongest terms” the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel late…
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Opinion Even ‘apartheid’ doesn’t capture fullness of our Palestinian suffering. But it helps.
In a recent meeting with a representative of the United Nations, I was asked to suggest concepts that would capture the suffering my family and loved ones in Gaza endure. I froze for a moment, not only because of the surprise of a legal scholar unsuccessfully looking for a concept that would precisely capture Gaza’s…
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Fast Forward Hamas arrests 7 for videoconference with Israel peace activists
(JTA) — Hamas authorities have arrested seven Gaza residents for participating in a videoconference with peace campaigners in Israel. The arrests, which Hamas confirmed and defended as rooted in national security, have triggered a debate in Palestinian society over free speech and prompted multiple condemnations. Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, bans many forms of…
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News How would the tunnel Trump proposes between the West Bank and Gaza work?
President Trump’s 180-page peace plan proposes a tunnel to connect the West Bank and Gaza but didn’t offer details about how it would work. To find out what a project of this scale would entail, the Forward spoke to two experts on tunnel construction. Michael Horodniceanu, a former engineer-in-chief at the MTA and Israeli citizen,…
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Opinion Israel Is Now Trolling Us Palestinians On Social Media
You may not know that in addition to living under occupation and blockade, Palestinians must endure trolling on social media by the same forces that oppress us. It’s certainly not comparable to the daily, systematic humiliations, traumas, and abuse involved in living without civil rights. But there’s something downright dehumanizing about having to watch these…
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Opinion Israel’s Policy To Empty Gaza Isn’t Just Dehumanizing. It’s Dangerous.
This week, a senior Israeli official admitted that his government has been actively pushing Palestinians to emigrate from Gaza for a year. This Israeli-induced one-way emigration from Gaza is fundamentally wrong on many levels. It’s absolute cowardice to prioritize emptying Gaza of its people over working to end the miseries suffered by its caged population….
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Fast Forward Gaza Arson Balloons Cause 20 Fires In One-Day Blitz
JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least 20 fires started by incendiary balloons sent from Gaza were burning in southern Israel on Thursday. Some officials put the number of fires set from Thursday morning until late Thursday afternoon at 24, the largest number of fires started by the arson balloons in one day since the attacks became…
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Fast Forward Explosive Balloons From Gaza Ignite Fires In Southern Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Incendiary balloons ignited three fires Tuesday in the Kissufim forest on the border with the Gaza Strip. A day earlier, incendiary balloons ignited four fires — several in the same forest and another in a wheat field — that burned dozens of acres. The balloons, carrying flammable materials, are lit and sent…
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