This is 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 Itamar Ben-Gvir draws criticism from Netanyahu for video taunting detained flotilla activists
Foreign Minister Gideon Saar also condemned the videos, writing that Ben-Gvir is “not the face of Israel."
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Fast Forward Pop star Harry Styles to ‘Viva Palestina’ concertgoer in Amsterdam: ‘Correct’
Styles, who has described feeling affinities to Jewish culture, had not previously commented publicly on Gaza
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
'Israel: What Went Wrong' sees Omer Bartov, a scholar of genocide and the Holocaust, considering how his birthplace changed
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Fast Forward Pulitzer Prize awarded to Palestinian photographer who captured ‘devastation and starvation in Gaza’
Saher Alghorra was honored for work that appeared in The New York Times
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Film & TV An Israeli dissident filmmaker finds tainted love amid the Gaza rubble
Nadav Lapid's ‘Yes’ takes on the war, art and the soul of a nation
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Fast Forward Report: Israeli group quietly organized charter flights evacuating Palestinians from Gaza
South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola called the evacuation flights a 'clear agenda to cleanse out the Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank'
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Fast Forward US formally defends Israel in International Court of Justice genocide case
The United States said the genocide charge was part of a broader campaign 'to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Jewish people'
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Opinion A two-hour State of the Union with zero vision for Gaza or Iran
A long speech was notably short on details about plans for the future in the Middle East
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