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 Israel Budget Can Absorb Gaza War Costs
Israel’s 2014 budget will be able to absorb the costs incurred during the month-long Gaza conflict and there will be no need to increases taxes, Finance Minister Yair Lapid said on Thursday. It will take a week or two for the government to determine the total impact of the conflict on the economy, Lapid said,…
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Fast Forward Young People Trapped in Gaza Yearn for Escape
(Reuters) — After spending most of the month-long Gaza war trapped at home watching the news for hours, Palestinian Salam al-Bayid returned to her university for the first time on Thursday to find the administration building with its facade in pieces. With the ceasefire that started on Tuesday still holding, the 18-year-old architecture student had…
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Fast Forward Fake Pics Show Israelis Killing Disney Characters
A French senator apologized for any misunderstandings connected to her praise for a campaign featuring fake pictures of Israeli leaders murdering Disney cartoon characters. Nathalie Goulet of the Union of Democrats and Independents party made the endorsement on Twitter earlier this week, Europe1.fr reported, in posting on her account the images of Israeli Prime Minister…
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Fast Forward Gaza Talks Race for Deal To Extend Truce
Mediators worked against the clock on Thursday to extend a Gaza truce between Israel and the Palestinians as the three-day ceasefire went into its final 24 hours. Israel has said it is ready to agree to an extension as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israelis and Palestinians on an enduring end to a war that…
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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu Confronts Minefields After Gaza War
Israel didn’t participate in the Cairo negotiations that produced the 72-hour Gaza cease-fire on Tuesday morning, August 5. The invitation had come just hours after an earlier 72-hour cease-fire collapsed with the ambush and attempted kidnap of Lt. Hadar Goldin. That was the fifth cease-fire to collapse in 25 days. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,…
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Fast Forward University of Illinois Rescinds Offer to Professor After Anti-Israel Tweets
The University of Illinois rescinded a job offer to an incoming professor who harshly criticized Israel on Twitter. Steven Salaita, who was offered a job at the Champaign-Urbana campus in the American Indian studies program, will not be hired, according to a report by the website Inside Higher Education. The move reportedly was made in…
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News Israel Ambassador Slams United Nations For ‘Complicity’ In Hamas Existence
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations slammed its members for “their complicity in allowing organizations like Hamas to continue to exist in the Middle East.” Ron Prosor spoke Wednesday at a special General Assembly session on Gaza. “This institution was founded to stand for truth, for justice, and for moral clarity. This is no longer…
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Fast Forward Hamas Says No Deal To Extend Gaza Truce
A senior Cairo-based Hamas official said late on Wednesday there was no agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians over the extension of a 72-hour Gaza ceasefire that took effect on Tuesday. Israel said hours ago it was ready to extend the three-day deal beyond a Friday deadline and had sent a delegation back to Cairo…
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