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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Opinion Kamala Harris has the perfect response to anti-Israel hecklers
The vice president is right: You can care about Palestinians — and also about winning the White House
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Fast Forward Hamas picks Gaza’s Yahya Sinwar to replace slain political leader Ismail Haniyeh
Sinwar is seen as the mastermind of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel
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Opinion The ICJ ruling is a welcome step, but Palestinians in the West Bank are running out of time
The UN's highest court ruled that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza was illegal
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News Israeli hospital has been quietly harboring 24 patients from Gaza and their families since October
A grandmother of a sick toddler says they’re ‘living between two hells’
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Opinion Has Israel really killed up to 186,000 people in Gaza? How to understand the numbers war
A headline-making new study suggests the death toll in Gaza might be almost 5 times higher than reported. Here's why you should be skeptical
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News In Israel, a new habit: Attending funerals of fallen soldiers you do not know
“There’s an aspect of death in Israel that is communal”
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Culture How Gaza became an online clapback to anything (and I mean anything) you disagree with
Posts about invasive plants, sunburns and eating disorders are all plagued by commenters comparing their trials to war
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Opinion Today’s antisemitism will not end when the war in Gaza does
The normalization of antisemitism in society is redefining how Jews will exist in the world
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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Opinion A year after Oct. 7, Israel has the chance to remake its future — for better or worse
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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Opinion Oct. 7 changed Israel. A year later, it must change American Jews, too
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