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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Opinion Gazans are starving. Airdrops of aid could help change that
Aerial food drops over Gaza could help prevent a famine while bypassing security and distribution challenges
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Opinion Calls to depopulate Gaza are a dangerous pipe dream
Population transfer is as morally and strategically indefensible as many of the Israeli right’s other fantasies.
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Opinion ‘Proving’ rape is hard. Denialism makes it impossible
An obsessive focus on the particulars of how victims were violated on Oct. 7 misses the larger point
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Opinion Will anything make the world take Hamas’ sexual violence seriously?
In a worldview reduced to victim and oppressor, there is simply no space for Israeli suffering
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Fast Forward Group opposing war in Gaza cancels Holocaust museum event after critics call it antisemitic
Organizers say their motives for gathering planned in Washington were misconstrued
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News Palestinian advocacy groups seek ‘leverage’ with new political wings
The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights hopes to move Congress by grading politicians and mobilizing voters
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News As Israel fights Hamas, activists on the right are calling to rebuild settlements in Gaza
Politicians on the far right have long called for reestablishing Gush Katif, but the war has brought those demands squarely into the mainstream
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Opinion Young Israelis and Palestinians are giving up on peace. It’s on all of us to fix that
Millennial Jews and Palestinians have all but given up on a two-state solution. We fail to reckon with this reality at our own peril.
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