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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Opinion Board Member Quits LGBT Synagogue Over Gaza
Congregation Beth Simchat Torah’s Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum / WN Claiming “Hamas propaganda” has infected the pulpit, a director of the nation’s largest LGBT synagogue resigned in an angry e-mail this week, igniting a firestorm on social media. But the rabbi of New York’s Congregation Beth Simchat Torah is calling the resignation letter “a twisted perversion…
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Fast Forward Sydney Police Aim To Block Pro-Palestinian Protest at Israeli Film Fest
Police in Sydney launched a legal bid to stop a pro-Palestinian protest at the opening of the Israeli Film Festival. Officials of the Palestine Action Group said members are listed for a hearing Monday in the Supreme Court of New South Wales ahead of the group’s planned protest outside the cinema on Thursday. The Guardian…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Unfazed by Hamas Warnings in Gaza Truce Talks
(Reuters) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday any deal on Gaza’s future had to meet Israel’s security needs, warning Hamas it faced “harsh strikes” if it resumed firing into the Jewish state. With a five-day ceasefire due to expire late on Monday, negotiators returned after consultations to Cairo to seek an end to five…
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Fast Forward As War Winds Down, Doctors Heal Damaged Minds Amidst Gaza Destruction
In a ward at Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital, child therapist Rabeea Hamouda is trying to elicit a response from two small brothers, Omar and Mohammed, aged three and 18 months, hoping for some words or perhaps a smile. For seven straight minutes the children, peppered with burns and shrapnel wounds sustained in Israeli shelling that…
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Opinion From Gaza to Sderot, Trauma Marks The Past — And The Present
There’s a line in one of Godard’s films: “I’m trying to be humane. Too bad I’m only human.” Shmaryahu Levin, a prominent American Zionist of the mid 20th century, said it even better: “Kh’bin bloys a mentsh, un amol dos oykh nisht.” “I’m only human, and sometimes not even that.” Leonard Fein was not a…
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Fast Forward European Union Backs Mission to Monitor Rafah Crossing Point
The European Union on Friday said it was willing to reactivate an EU mission on the Egypt-Gaza border to help stabilize the Palestinian enclave after weeks of war. At talks in Brussels, foreign ministers representing the 28 EU countries welcomed a ceasefire in Gaza and said they could relaunch the EU Border Assistance Mission for…
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Fast Forward Hamas Accuses Israel of Cross-Border Shooting, In Violation of Truce
The Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza accused Israel on Friday of a cross-border shooting in violation of a truce that has largely held since getting off to a shaky start on Thursday. An Israeli military spokeswoman said: “We have no knowledge of such an incident.” The Palestinian ministry in the coastal territory dominated by Hamas…
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Opinion Better The Enemy You Know — Gaza’s Other Terror Groups
Getty Images (JTA) — After four weeks of a punishing Israel air and ground campaign that left nearly 2,000 dead and much of Gaza in ruins, Hamas has lived to see another day. For Israel, that might not be the worst thing. That’s because for all of Hamas’ violent extremism, it also governs a territory, maintains…
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