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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Breaking News Israel Continues Terror Tunnel Search Amid Hamas Threats and Border Violence
Israel’s military said it had discovered a cross-border tunnel on Thursday built by the Islamist group Hamas from the Gaza Strip during a rare flare-up of violence along a border that has been largely quiet since a 2014 war. Gaza hospital officials said a 54-year-old woman had been killed and a man wounded by fragments…
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Breaking News Hamas Terror Tunnel From Gaza Is Uncovered
Israel’s military said it had discovered on Thursday a cross-border tunnel built by the Islamist Hamas group from the Gaza Strip, a day after a rare flare-up of violence along the frontier. The military said Wednesday’s violence, in which Hamas militants fired mortar bombs at Israeli forces, may have been an attempt by the Islamist…
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Israel News For Parents of Israeli Soldiers Lost in Gaza, the War Never Ended
KFAR SABA, Israel (JTA) — One family lost their son in late July 2014. The other lost theirs on the first of August in the same year. One family has lobbied the United Nations and crossed an ocean in hopes of bringing their son’s remains back. The other mostly stays home. One family is sure…
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Israel News ADL Slams Sanders for Exaggeraring Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza War
The Anti-Defamation League has called on Sen. Bernie Sanders to publicly correct his statement that “over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza” in the war between Israel and Hamas in 2014. Sanders, I-Vt., a Democratic presidential candidate, made the statement in an with the editorial board of the New York Daily News published Monday….
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Breaking News Gaza Construction Workers Unearth Ruins of 1,500-Year-Old Byzantine Church
Construction workers in Gaza have discovered ancient ruins that archaeologists say may be part of a Byzantine church dating from around 1,500 years ago, the Palestinian tourism and antiquities ministry said on Monday. The findings include segments of marble pillars with ornate Corinthian capitals, one nearly three meters (yards) long, and a 90 cm (35…
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Breaking News Gaza Child Labor Doubled in Last 5 Years, Palestinians Say
Child labor has doubled in the Gaza Strip in the last five years, the Palestinian government said. Some 9,700 children ages 10 to 17 are currently working in Gaza in places such as garages and on construction sites, Reuters reported, citing the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics. The legal employment age in Gaza is 15; nearly…
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Breaking News Gaza Boy and 6-Year-Old Sister Killed by Israeli MIssile Strike
A Palestinian boy and his sister were killed in Hamas-controlled Gaza on Saturday by a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft, medical officials said. The incident took place hours after militants launched rockets into Israel. An Israeli military statement said aircraft had targeted four militant training camps belonging to Hamas after four missiles landed in…
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Breaking News Bibi Threatens To Expel Entire Families of Palestinian Attackers to Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he hopes to curb a wave of Palestinian assaults by expelling to Gaza families of assailants found to have encouraged them to attack Israelis. Netanyahu, in a letter to Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit released to the media, asked for a legal opinion on such a move, which he said…
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