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 Fired Israeli Nurse Gets Job Back After ‘Apology’ for Attacking War in Gaza
An Arab nurse at an Israeli hospital suspended from his job for a Facebook post that calls the Israeli military “war criminals” was reinstated. The Arab-Israeli male nurse at Sheba Medical Center must issue a public apology to the hospital administration, according to reports. The agreement between the nurse and the hospital came on Wednesday,…
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News Belgian Doctor Refuses To Treat Jewish Patient in Spat Over Gaza
A Belgian physician who refused to treat a Jewish woman with a fractured rib suggested she visit Gaza to get rid of the pain. The physician made the remark on Wednesday while manning a medical hotline in Flanders, Belgium’s Flemish region, whose capital, Antwerp, has a sizeable Orthodox Jewish population, the local Jewish monthly Joods…
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Israel News Israel and Palestinians Locked in Vicious Circle of War, Terror and Occupation
When Israel ended its 38-year ground occupation of the Gaza Strip by withdrawing settlers in 2005, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hailed it as a “disengagement” from conflict with Palestinians in the densely populated coastal enclave. But the conflict did not end, it only changed. Israel kept expanding settlements in the West Bank where the Palestinians…
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Israel News Is Fido Suffering From Gaza War, Too?
(Haaretz) — It’s a lazy afternoon. It’s hot and the family’s hanging out. Suddenly a rocket siren shatters the peace. Everybody, including the family’s five dogs, heads promptly but calmly to the reinforced “safe room.” Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, as the siren wails, D.’s dog pees on the floor in terror. Jasmine’s three cats twitch an…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Defense League Leader Denies Reports of Ban
A leader of France’s Jewish Defense League dismissed as rumors reports that officials were considering banning his far-right group. The reports began after Muslim community leaders earlier this week called on authorities to ban the group, which is ideologically close to the American and Israeli branches of the Jewish Defense League, or JDL. On Wednesday,…
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Fast Forward Dutch Jew’s Apartment Firebombed Over Israel Flag on Balcony
A Jewish woman who displayed an Israeli flag from her balcony in Amsterdam was targeted with a firebomb and death threats. The firebomb landed on the balcony of neighbors of Leah Rabinovitch, a Mexico-born Jewish woman who flew the Israeli flag on Amsterdam’s Kruger Square, located in an eastern neighborhood heavily populated with Moroccan immigrants,…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Vows No Truce Until Gaza Tunnels Destroyed
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing international alarm over a rising civilian death toll in Gaza, said on Thursday he would not accept any ceasefire that stopped Israel completing the destruction of militants’ infiltration tunnels. The Israeli military estimated on Wednesday that accomplishing that task, already into its fourth week, would take several more days….
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Opinion Convergence of Hate
Last Shabbat, as my husband and I were walking home from a long, lovely lunch with friends, I noticed scribbling on the sidewalk. Since the letters were written in white chalk and were upside down from where I stood, it took a moment to decipher their meaning, and another moment to get over the shock….
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