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 Hillary Clinton Backs Israel’s Handling of Gaza
Hillary Rodham Clinton defended Israel’s handling of the Gaza conflict and said anti-Semitism was possibly behind some of the criticism of Israel. Clinton also appeared to back Israel’s insistence on maintaining a security presence in the West Bank and stopping Iranian uranium enrichment. The former U.S. secretary of state made her remarks in an interview…
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Breaking News Sprawling Anti-Israel Rallies Hit London and Cape Town
Tens of thousands of people protested Israel’s operation against Gaza in both London and Cape Town. Demonstrators in central London marched though the West End shopping area and on to Hyde Park for a rally on Saturday. It is the third major demonstration on behalf of Gaza in London in the last month. Organizers said…
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Breaking News Gaza Deal Reached for New 72-Hour Truce
A Palestinian official said on Sunday agreement had been reached on a new 72-hour Gaza ceasefire. There was no immediate confirmation from Israel or Hamas, the dominant movement in the Gaza Strip, that a truce had been agreed. “The Israeli and the Palestinian sides have agreed to the new 72-hour truce to begin serious negotiations…
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Breaking News Small Israel Rally Slams Gaza War
More than 150 Israelis protested in Tel Aviv on Saturday against a Gaza war entering its second month, in defiance of a police ban on the assembly that cited military restrictions on public gatherings in cities within range of rocket fire. The relatively small turnout was similar to the numbers that have shown up for…
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Breaking News Israel Pounds Gaza Killing 9 — Hamas Hits Back
Israel launched more than 30 air attacks in Gaza on Saturday, killing nine Palestinians, and militants fired rockets at Israel as the conflict entered a second month, defying international efforts to revive a ceasefire. The violence seemed at risk of jeopardizing talks brokered by Egypt aimed at securing a permanent truce. The Palestinian delegation in…
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Breaking News Barack Obama Says ‘Hard To See’ Benjamin Netanyahu Making Tough Peace Compromises
President Barack Obama suggested in a groundbreaking new interview that Benjamin Netanyahu may lack the political courage to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians. Interviewed by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, Obama said Israel doesn’t face questions about its survival but rather about how it can maintain its democratic and civic traditions,…
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Opinion The (Overlooked) Man in Ramallah
Now that the recent war in Gaza seems to have come to some kind of end, we’ve arrived at the portion of this cyclical fighting in which each side vies to spin itself as the winner. But amid this jockeying, the position of perhaps the most important player in the drama to come has been…
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Opinion Gaza War Leaves Broken Friendships in Wake
If Hollywood and television are a microcosm of the real world, the current Middle East conflict didn’t just leave an estimated 1,814 Palestinians and 67 Israelis dead, but also left countless friendships and relationships destroyed in its aftermath. The collateral social damage stemming from baseless insults, fuming rhetoric, serves no purpose other than to hinder…
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