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 U.S. Attitudes Towards Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Haven’t Changed Since 2002
Americans’ attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are little changed from 2002, a new Gallup poll found. The poll published Tuesday and conducted Aug. 2-3 found that Americans’ views of the conflict have changed little over the past 10 days — or the past 12 years. Respondents are about evenly divided over whether Israel’s actions in…
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Fast Forward TV Crews Expose Hamas Rockets in Residential Areas of Gaza
French and Indian TV stations broadcast footage showing Hamas rocket launching facilities in a civilian area. The French TV station, France 24, showed a rocket launching pad located about 100 yards from a United Nations building flying the blue U.N. flag. A hotel housing journalists covering the Gaza conflict was located about 50 yards from…
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Opinion 6 Ways To Spin the Gaza War
Getty Images (JTA) — Now that the latest Gaza conflict appears to be nearly over it’s time to take stock of the winners and losers. Who won the war? Perhaps more than the other two Gaza conflicts in the last six years, Israel is the clear winner this time. The Israel Defense Forces dealt a…
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Fast Forward Mission Accomplished? Don’t Tell Israelis Near Gaza
(Reuters) — Many Israelis living on the Gaza border were unconvinced by their military’s announcement that its mission was accomplished in a nearly month-long campaign aimed at ending rocket strikes and tunnel infiltration. Israel’s government, they said, had taken too long to deal with the network of underground passages Palestinian militants had been digging for…
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Fast Forward Gaza Child Death Toll Over 400: UNICEF
More than 400 children have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza, and almost a thousand times as many are traumatized and face an “extraordinarily bleak” future, the top UNICEF official in Gaza said on Tuesday. Pernille Ironside, head of the field office run by the U.N. children’s agency in Gaza, said rebuilding children’s lives…
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Fast Forward Will Israel Tourism Bounce Back Quickly?
Tourism to Israel, badly damaged by rocket fire from Gaza during an Israeli offensive against Islamist militants in the enclave, should bounce back later in the year, Tourism Minister Uzi Landau said on Tuesday. More than 3.5 million visitors came to Israel in 2013, pumping some 40 billion shekels ($12 billion) into the economy and…
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News My Gaza Memories
To most people reading the news, Gaza seems distant and unknowable — in many ways a faraway place. This is true even within Israel, where the ritsua, the strip, seemed forever like a festering outlier: something to speed past on the way to someplace better. And those of us who had the hapless luck of…
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Fast Forward War Turns Gaza Fruit Basket Into Wasteland
(Reuters) — The stench of rotting animal carcasses was in the air as 10-year-old Ahmed al-Kafarna picked through the debris of his Gaza home after a ceasefire began on Tuesday, looking for his toys. “Mine was the middle room, I found it, I mean the rubble,” he said. “Those are the photos of me, with…
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