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 Egypt Cuts the Number of Palestinian Entries from Gaza Strip in Post Morsi Era
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Egypt has sharply cut the number of Palestinians allowed to enter from the Gaza Strip since its military ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last month, the tiny enclave’s Islamist Hamas rulers said on Monday. An Egyptian official said the curbs were “not a punishment” for Hamas’s Islamist leanings but an effort…
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Fast Forward Hamas Shuts Down Three Media Outlets in Gaza
Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas closed the offices of three media companies, including the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television and Palestinian news agency Maan, on Thursday, employees and a Hamas spokesman said. Al Arabiya and Maan employees said Hamas security men had arrived at their offices with an order from the attorney general to shut down immediately…
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Fast Forward Mursi Ousting Fuels Islamic Militant Groups in the Sinai
Within hours of Egypt’s elected president being overthrown this month, militant fellow Islamists in the Sinai peninsula were talking of making war on Cairo’s security forces. Scarcely had a video surfaced on YouTube of hundreds of men chanting “No to peace!”, than police and troops were attacked in El Arish and other North Sinai towns….
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Fast Forward Egypt Unrest Impacts Life And Economy in Gaza as Borders Close
The continuing unrest in Egypt has taken a humanitarian and economic toll on the Gaza Strip, as the Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah border crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border amid insecurity in the Sinai Peninsula, and out of fear that Hamas activists would join in the struggle on the side of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood….
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Shows Rockets in Gaza Stadium to Soccer Boss Sepp Blatter
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed the president of the international soccer federation proof that Palestinian soccer fields have been used to launch rockets at Israel. Netanyahu met Tuesday with FIFA President Joseph Blatter a day after Blatter visited sites in the West Bank, including the opening of the new offices of the Palestine Football…
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Fast Forward Hamas Badly Shaken by Egypt Coup
Just a year ago, tens of thousands of Hamas supporters took to the streets of Gaza for a noisy celebration of the election of fellow Islamist Mohamed Mursi as Egypt’s president. Stunned silence among Hamas officials in the Palestinian enclave, which shares a border with Egypt’s lawless Sinai peninsula, greeted his overthrow last Wednesday by…
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Fast Forward Gazan Who Disappeared To Egypt Held by Police in Israel
A Palestinian from the Gaza Strip who vanished while visiting Egypt this month is under arrest in Israel for alleged security offences, his family and his Israeli lawyer said on Sunday. They said they did not know how Wael Abu Rida, 35, ended up in the Jewish state. The possibility he was seized from Egyptian…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back After 6-Rocket Gaza Attack
Israel carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday in response to Palestinian militant rocket fire that broke weeks of relative calm along the frontier. No casualties were reported in the incidents. Six rockets were fired into Israel overnight, causing no damage, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Two of them were shot down…
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