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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Fast Forward ‘Anti-Semitic’ Dutch Cartoon Shows Israeli Soldier Using Palestinian For Target Practice
A cartoon in a Dutch newspaper that depicts an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian youth was condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as anti-Semitic. The Jewish human rights organization announced on Monday that the cartoon printed in Volkskrant depicted Israel “as a murderous bully celebrating its 70th birthday by gunning down defenseless Palestinians at the…
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Community This Is Not About Natalie Portman
Come on, folks. Since when is one actress’s discomfort about sharing a stage with Israel’s blood-stained prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, more newsworthy than the Israeli atrocities against Gaza that presumably spurred it? (And let’s face it, these are just the most recent horrors in Israel’s war on the 2 million inmates of the world’s largest…
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Fast Forward IDF Investigating Death Of Palestinian Teen During Border Protests
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s military is investigating the death of a Palestinian teen killed during protests on the Gaza-Israel border. Mohammed Ayoub, 15, was killed Friday during the fourth week of protests along Gaza’s border with Israel, part of the so-called “Great March of Return.” His shooting about 100 meters from the border was captured…
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Opinion Hamas, Not Israel, Is Responsible For Deaths In Gaza
It’s now been a month. An entire month of Palestinian organized, initiated and funded violence at the border with Gaza. What began with a promise of non-violence has cost some 35 Palestinian lives and hundreds of reported casualties. But the leaders of Hamas keep promising us that the worst is still ahead. Indeed, we are…
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Fast Forward Kites Armed With Firebombs Target Israel From Gaza
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinians in Gaza flew a kite over the border carrying a fire bomb, which started a fire where it touched down. The Molotov cocktail-laden kite bearing the colors of the Palestinian flag that landed near a southern Israeli kibbutz on Sunday is not the first effort by Gazan Palestinians to start fires…
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Fast Forward Israeli Military Destroys Hamas Terror Tunnel That Was ‘Ready For Use’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli army destroyed a Hamas terror tunnel that stretched from Gaza into southern Israel. The tunnel, which was constructed by Hamas after the Gaza War in 2014, was “ready for use,” the IDF spokesman said. It was also connected to a network of tunnels under Gaza, according to the IDF. The…
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Opinion Millions Of Palestinians Marching To ‘Return’ To Israel Is Not Peaceful
Just an easy hour’s drive south along the Mediterranean coast from where I live, Gaza’s Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar encouraged a crowd of protesters gathering last Friday for the supposedly peaceful “Great March of Return” near the border with Israel: “We will uproot the borders, we will pluck out their hearts, and we will pray…
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Fast Forward Elizabeth Warren Urges Israel To Express Restraint Toward Gaza Protesters
(JTA) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the Israeli government to respect the rights of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border. Warren, D-Mass., made the call in a statement sent to The Intercept on Wednesday, the online news publication reported the following day. “I am deeply concerned about the deaths and injuries in Gaza,” Warren said….
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