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 Gaza Residents Suffering From Severe Water Shortage Due to Conflict
Gaza residents are suffering from a severe water shortage as a result of the ongoing conflict there. Damage to wells and Gaza’s energy infrastructure has disrupted the pumping and distribution of water, cutting the coastal strip’s water supply by half, according to Haaretz. In addition, hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans have been unable to…
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Opinion How Should U.S. Teachers Talk to Kids About War in Gaza?
Getty Images (JTA) — With the new school year nearly upon us, Jewish educational leaders are scrambling to prepare their teachers to discuss this summer’s Gaza War. The most pressing challenge is to design age-appropriate conversations: At which grade level might classroom discussions include potentially frightening topics, such as the wounding of non-combatants, kidnapping of young…
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Fast Forward Calls to U.K. Anti-Semitism Hotline Soar Since Start of Gaza War
The number of calls to an anti-Semitism hotline in the United Kingdom have jumped nearly fivefold since the beginning of Israel’s conflict with Gaza, according to a British Jewish organization. In July, the hotline of the Community Security Trust, British Jewry’s watchdog on anti-Semitism, received 240 calls, according to the Independent, a British publication. The…
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Fast Forward Israeli Air Strike Kills Three Hamas Commanders in Gaza
Israel killed three senior Hamas commanders in an air strike on the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the clearest signal yet that Israel is intent on eliminating the group’s military leadership after a failed attempt on the life of its top commander this week. Hamas, which dominates Gaza, named the men as Mohammed Abu Shammala, Raed…
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Israel News ‘Righteous’ Medal Returned, But Drama of Saved Family Continues
When 91-year-old Henk Zanoli protested Israel’s war in Gaza by returning the medal he’d received from the state for rescuing a Jew from the Nazis, even many of Israel’s supporters voiced some understanding: The Jewish state’s controversial bombing had just killed six Palestinian members of Zanoli’s own extended family who lived in the now devastated…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says Gaza Operation May Be ‘Continued Campaign’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday Israel’s military campaign in Gaza may be an extended operation and he accused the territory’s Hamas rulers of using “savagery” against civilians just like Islamic State militants in Iraq. At a news conference in Tel Aviv, the Israeli premier said the Gaza war launched on July 8 “will…
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Life Fighting the Israeli Macho: A Gchat with Elana Sztokman
Copyright Ingrid Muller Dr. Elana Maryles Sztokman, the former executive director of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, is a leading writer and thinker on topics of feminism, Judaism, Israel and orthodoxy. Her first book, The Men’s Section: Orthodox Jewish Men in an Egalitarian World, won the 2012 National Jewish Book Council Award in the area…
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Fast Forward Hamas Leader’s Wife and Infant Son Killed in Israeli Strike
An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed the wife and infant son of Hamas’s military leader, Mohammed Deif, the group said, calling it an attempt to assassinate him after a ceasefire collapsed. Palestinians launched more than 100 rockets, mainly at southern Israel, with some intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, the military said. No…
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