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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Culture Why Did John Kerry Mock ‘Pinpoint Operation’ in Gaza?
‘That is a hell of a pinpoint operation, a hell of a pinpoint operation,” Secretary of State John Kerry said to Fox News interviewer Chris Wallace on Sunday, July 20, in reference to the Israeli military operation in Gaza. The channel’s viewers did not get to hear this remark, because Kerry made it after he…
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Fast Forward Israel Suggests It May Wind Down Gaza War
Israel signaled it was winding down the 25-day-old Gaza war unilaterally, saying on Saturday it would not attend Egyptian-hosted negotiations for a new truce and giving Palestinians who had fled fighting in one northern town the all-clear to return. But shelling exchanges continued, with Palestinian officials saying Gaza’s mostly civilian death toll rose to 1,669…
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Fast Forward Egypt Questions Whether Gaza Truce Talks Can Succeed
Egypt’s President said on Saturday a ceasefire plan proposed by his country offered the chance to end the Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas, but warned that lost time further complicated matters. “The Egyptian initiative is a real chance to find a real solution to the crisis taking place in the Gaza Strip,” Abdel Fattah…
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Fast Forward Hamas Denies Holding Soldier — Claims Ambush Came Before Gaza Truce Took Effect
Hamas claimed responsibility on Saturday for a deadly Gaza Strip ambush in which an Israeli army officer may have been captured, but said the incident likely preceded and therefore had not violated a U.S.- and U.N.-sponsored truce. The statement by Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, appeared aimed at preempting any intensification of Israel’s 25-day-old…
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Opinion Genocide Is Always Wrong
It seems impossible to me that I am typing this line: Genocide is never permissible. Full stop. That one would even need to type such a line destroys me. That an author proposed such an idea? A horror. But It is also his newspaper. It is also the world he – they? We? – live…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Calls for Gaza Truce — Backs John Kerry Push
President Barack Obama on Friday called on Hamas and Palestinian factions to release a captured Israeli soldier as a precondition for resolving tensions between Israel and Palestinians and said efforts would be made to re-establish a ceasefire that has collapsed. “If they are serious about trying to resolve this situation, that soldier needs to be…
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Fast Forward Pro-Genocide Opinion Piece Pulled From Jewish Papers
The Times of Israel and the 5 Towns Jewish Times removed a blog post calling for genocide to be considered as an option in the Gaza conflict and the Times of Israel dropped the blogger. “If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through…
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News What Will Happen Now That Hamas Has Captured Israeli Soldier Hadar Goldin
(JTA) — Now that Hamas appears to have achieved one of the central goals of its confrontation with Israel, the capture of a live Israeli soldier, a number of things are likely to follow. Hamas is going to trumpet its operation as a success, and that assertion will reach receptive ears among Palestinians. With thousands…
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