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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News ‘They’re shooting at our house’: Eyewitnesses recount horrors following Gazan infiltration
Israeli residents in Gaza border community barricaded themselves into safe rooms on Saturday morning as Hamas militants stormed the kibbutzim
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Fast Forward ‘We are at war,’ Netanyahu declares after deadly attacks from Gaza
More than 250 Israelis killed, dozens kidnapped after barrage of rockets and ground invasion of Southern Israel
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News Biden decided to ‘smother Netanyahu with love’ during 2021 Gaza conflict, new book claims
Franklin Foer’s new book on Biden’s presidency includes a chapter that conveys his hesitancy to get tough with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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Fast Forward Five rockets launched towards Israel from Gaza, causing minor damage to Sderot homes
Israel responded to the rockets with an air strike on Hamas munitions production facilities, 'significantly impeding Hamas' efforts to intensify the conflict,' as operation in Jenin comes to an end
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News Report: Shireen Abu Akleh, who died a year ago, is one of 20 journalists whose deaths involve Israeli military
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ scathing report notes that not a single soldier has faced prosecution in any of these cases
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Fast Forward Israel responds to rockets fired from Gaza after death of Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike
Khader Adnan, who died Tuesday after three months of hunger-striking, is the first Palestinian to die by this form of protest
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Opinion Israeli soldiers occupied my home for years. 75 years in, have the protesters forgotten us in Gaza?
I can’t help but support Israelis protesting their own government, but the justice system they're fighting for failed my people
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Looking Forward Artist Nidaa Badwan escaped repression in Gaza. Now she’s taking on Iran.
'Every part of my body wants to talk about this story,' Badwan said
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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