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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Opinion Israel’s war is making American Jews unsafe. So why are so many still supporting it?
Reckoning with surging antisemitism means reckoning with Israel's role in fomenting it
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Opinion After 5 months of fierce fighting, how close is Israel to its goals?
To win the war, Netanyahu needs to embrace a new narrative
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Fast Forward Netanyahu rebukes Biden for recent warnings to Israel
In a video message to an AIPAC conference Tuesday, the prime minister took aim at world leaders who have publicly opposed a ground operation in Rafah
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Politics Biden faces his first test at the polls after calling for ‘immediate’ ceasefire in Gaza
Activists in Washington state and Georgia are urging voters to cast their primary ballots in protest of Biden's stance on Israel-Hamas war
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Politics Analysis: Biden and Netanyahu trade barbs to satisfy their bases
The two men have very different red lines regarding the war in Gaza
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News ‘It’s just more death’: Hundreds more rabbis demand ceasefire as call gains mainstream traction
More than 600 Jewish clergy have signed either the Rabbis for Ceasefire declaration or the new letter from T'ruah, a rabbinic human rights group
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Fast Forward Subway ads replaced by posters protesting war in Gaza in stealth campaign by artists
Images of rubble, Aaron Bushnell quote and a poem by a Palestinian replace ads for Tinder
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Opinion She was 7 years old. She shared my name. In Gaza, she died an unthinkable death
Graphic images of Sidra Hassouna's death sent shockwaves across the internet. To me, they were personal
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Special Report This school is fighting antisemitism all wrong. Why is it working?
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Opinion I know exactly why leftists aren’t celebrating this ceasefire
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Opinion Hamas made a remarkable offer — because Trump laid a remarkable trap
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Books A bespectacled, Jewish hypochondriac with literary pretensions and a creepy fascination with his stepson’s girlfriend — Guess who?
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Fast Forward All 20 living hostages back in Israel, 2 years after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
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Fast Forward His son is due to be released from Gaza imminently. Ilan Dalal is grateful — and not just to Trump.
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Fast Forward How Abe Kugielsky’s photos of Hasidic Brooklyn ended up on display in Grand Central Terminal
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Fast Forward As Israelis rally for hostages — for the last time, they hope — Trump’s name is cheered and Netanyahu’s is booed
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