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 Abbas Will Break Unity Agreement With Hamas If P.A. Can’t Operate in Gaza
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he would break his government’s unity agreement with the Islamist Hamas if it does not allow the unity government to operate in Gaza. “We will not accept the situation with Hamas continuing as it is at the moment,” Abbas said late Saturday night in Cairo, where he is scheduled…
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Fast Forward Watchdog: Britain Saw Record Levels of Anti-Semitism During Gaza War
Britain saw record levels of anti-Semitism during Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, a Jewish watchdog group said. In July 2014, the Community Security Trust, or CST, recorded 302 incidents — the highest ever monthly total documented by the group since it started monitoring anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom in 1984, CST wrote Thursday on…
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Fast Forward Tunisian Man Who Attacked Police During Pro-Gaza Rally in Paris, Jailed
A Tunisian man who hurled a metal bar at police during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Paris was sentenced to two months in prison. The prosecution wanted a one year sentence for the 34-year-old Tunisian national, but the Paris Correctional Tribunal sentenced him to two months in jail and another two months suspended sentence, the news…
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Fast Forward Swiss Jewish Leader Denies Leaking Pro-Gaza Mayor’s Nude Selfies
The president of a Swiss Jewish community denied accusations that he helped leak nude photos of a pro-Palestinian mayor who had sent them to a younger woman. Josef Bollag, who heads the Baden-Baden Jewish community, issued the denial last week in an op-ed that he wrote amid the unfolding of a scandal that forced Mayor…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Authority Estimates Rebuilding Gaza Will Cost $7.8 Billion
Rebuilding Gaza will cost $7.8 billion, the Palestinian Authority said on Thursday, in the most comprehensive assessment yet of damage from a seven-week war with Israel during which whole neighborhoods and vital infrastructure were flattened. The cost of rebuilding 17,000 Gazan homes razed by Israeli bombings would be $2.5 billion, the Authority said, and the…
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Fast Forward Parents of Slain 4-Year-Old Israeli Boy Write Letter to Ban Ki-Moon
The parents of a 4-year-old boy killed in a mortar attack at his home on a kibbutz near the Gaza border in a letter called on the head of the United Nations to speak out about Hamas’ war crimes. “Daniel was killed from a mortar shell that was fired by Hamas members from an elementary…
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Fast Forward Hamas More Popular Among Palestinians Than Before Gaza War: Poll
Hamas’ popularity has surged in the West Bank and Gaza since its latest conflict with Israel, a new poll found. A Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey research poll released Tuesday found that 61 percent of Palestinians would choose the Islamic terror group’s Ismail Haniyeh for president if elections were held today, the Associated Press…
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Opinion Why Did We Obsess Over Israel’s War in Gaza? Capitalism.
A journalist films as rescue workers remove the body of a Palestinian man from the rubble of his home in Gaza / Getty Images The American media covers Israel more than almost any other pressing geopolitical concern. The disproportionate coverage was continually pointed out (as it had been in the past) as reporters crawled in…
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