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 French Jewish Activist Ambushed at Home
A French Jewish activist whose address was published in anti-Israel forums online was ambushed outside his home by several men who caused him minor injuries. The incident Friday in Bobigny near Paris was part of several violent incidents and expressions of hate speech that occurred over the weekend across Europe in continuation of a surge…
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Fast Forward Israel Resumes Gaza Attack as Truce Collapses — Toll Tops 1,000
A humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip collapsed on Sunday after a barrage of rockets fired by Palestinian militants was met with fierce Israeli shelling, in a fresh setback to efforts to secure a permanent ceasefire. Israeli tanks and artillery army pounded targets along the coastal enclave, sending thick plumes of black smoke rising into…
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Opinion Israel’s Conflict Has a Past — and a Future
Some years ago, a career military person told me that when the first intifada broke out, in 1987, there had been no indication of the impending uprising. A simple traffic accident sparked rioting that spread, while the military, and indeed Israeli society, was caught by surprise. I ventured that after 20 years of holding a…
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Fast Forward French Protesters Defy Ban To Rally Against Gaza War
Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in central Paris on Saturday when hundreds of marchers defied a ban by French authorities to rally against Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip. French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve warned organizers in a television address that they would be held responsible for any clashes and could be prosecuted for ignoring…
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Fast Forward Gaza Death Toll Tops 1,000 — Brief Truce Holds
(Reuters) — Palestinian death toll in the 19-day conflict between Israel and Hamas militants has climbed to over 1,000, many of them civilians, Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday. Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qidra said rescue workers had taken advantage of a 12-hour truce in the fighting and had retrieved more than 100 bodies buried in…
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Fast Forward Gaza Palestinans Emerge to Find Death and Devastation
(Reuters) — Palestinian refugees from Israel’s Gaza offensive emerged from shelters as a brief truce began on Saturday to find many neighborhoods destroyed and animals roaming the streets unattended. The Kefarneh family trudged back to Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip along with other refugees sheltering in United Nations schools to see if their…
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Culture Writing About Gaza From Comfort of Debra Winger’s Manhattan Pad
(Haaretz) — It’s so weird to be writing from here. To be writing from New York, where we decided to make a week-long stop before going on to Illinois. How can I write about what’s happening in Israel when I’m not there? How can I sound credible writing about the children in the Gaza Strip…
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Opinion Israel’s Latest Fib: ‘Gaza Tunnels Were Surprise’
Nahum Barnea, commonly described as Israel’s most respected political journalist, has spent much of the past two weeks with the troops in Gaza and talking to general command in Tel Aviv. His weekly column in today’s Yediot Ahronot weekend supplement, which I have translated below, happens to say some of the things I’ve been writing…
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