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 As Palestinians, We, Too, Must Take Responsibility For Gaza.
Gaza, again. It’s just 60 kilometers from my home here in Hebron, but harder for me to visit than almost anywhere else on earth. Every time that small strip of land is in the news, I feel the same sense of guilt, anger, helplessness, and most of all: our collective failure. Ten years into the…
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Fast Forward Hamas Machine Guns Fire On Israeli Fighter Jet, Triggering Rocket Sirens
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rocket alerts sounded throughout southern Israel, triggered by Hamas machine gun fire. The alarms began sounding after midnight between Wednesday and Thursday, sending residents of Gaza border area communities to bomb shelters. The alarms were triggered in the wake of an Israel Air Force strike on a Hamas military site in Gaza,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Says He Was One Shot By Israel Soldiers In Viral Video
A 28-year-old Palestinian said on Wednesday that he was the man whose shooting by an Israeli sniper was captured on a leaked video, and he denied the army’s allegations that he had been organizing a violent demonstration at the Gaza border. Tamer Abu Daqqa, an unemployed resident of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip,…
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Opinion Why An Israeli Soldier Cheered The Shooting Of An Unarmed Palestinian
On Monday a two-minute video of an Israeli soldier shooting a Palestinian man in Gaza went viral. In the video, you can hear the soldier receive an order to aim and shoot; then there is a loud “crack,” when he takes the shot, and as soon as he sees his target fall, he lets out…
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Fast Forward Reform’s Rabbi Rick Jacobs Calls For Restraint On Gaza Border
(JTA) — The president of the largest Jewish movement in the United States called on Israel to “take all necessary and effective precautions” to prevent harm to civilians during the Gaza border protests. Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism said in a statement issued Monday that the “ongoing escalation on the Gazan…
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Fast Forward Video Shows Israeli Snipers Cheering As Shot Hits Palestinian Protester
The Israeli military said on Monday that it was investigating a video that appears to show an Israeli army sniper shooting a motionless Palestinian across the border in Gaza, to whoops of excitement from the onlooker. Israeli television channels broadcast the clip at the start of their primetime evening news bulletins – with one host…
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Fast Forward IDF Attacks Hamas Military Base In Gaza After Border Infiltration
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces attacked a Hamas military base in the northern Gaza Strip after a group of Palestinians entered Israel and planted two bombs along the border fence. Three men entered Israel from Gaza late Sunday night and planted the two improvised explosive devices – plastic bottles filled with an ignitable…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Lawmaker Calls For West Bank Palestinians To Join Gaza Protests
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Arab-Israeli lawmaker Hanin Zoabi called on West Bank Palestinians to join the protests on the Gaza border. Zoabi, a member of Knesset from the Joint Arab List party also called Israel a “fascist” country and called for an investigation into the deaths of Palestinian protesters during a news conference at the United…
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