Welcome to 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 Israelis respond to Trump’s Gaza takeover with shock, dismay, elation and dark humor
Trump’s announcement that the United States would 'take over' Gaza came while Israelis slept
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Opinion My Jewish family was forced out of our homeland. We must not let Gazans suffer the same fate.
You don’t counter the fantasy of erasing Israel by proposing the same for Gaza, writes Hen Mazzig
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News Analysis: Trump’s Gaza relocation plan signals shift in Jewish political influence
Establishment Jewish groups seemed stunned into silence, while fringe far-right Zionists exulted in the mainstreaming of their ideas
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Fast Forward US Jewish groups respond to Trump’s Gaza comments
Mainstream Jewish groups did not immediately respond to Trump, but partisan ones did
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Fast Forward To Israel’s far right, Trump’s proposals for Gaza keep sounding ‘better and better’
The call to relocate Gaza Palestinians matches proposals laid out by Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, two far-right ministers
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Fast Forward Contradicting Trump, Saudi Arabia says no change in its demand for Palestinian state
Trump announced in a press conference on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia was not requiring a state as a condition for peace with Israel
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Opinion Is Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take over Gaza really as ludicrous as it sounds?
Even with all the good faith in the world, it's impossible to imagine how this could work — or who would benefit
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Fast Forward Trump: ‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip’
“We’ll own it, and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings,” he said
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Music Critics say Kendrick Lamar was too loud and hard to understand — they said the same thing about Bob Dylan in Newport
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Music In lawsuit, Drake accuses Kendrick Lamar of picking on ‘Jewish heritage’
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Opinion Yes, Trump’s Gaza plan is outrageous. It could also be just what the Middle East needs
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Fast Forward A grant to study Hebrew is ‘woke DEI,’ Ted Cruz says
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Fast Forward Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video, ‘F—ed up,’ places the West Bank and Holocaust side-by-side
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Opinion Why does Trump’s Gaza plan sound so familiar? Because the Nazis tried it first
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