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 How A ‘Misunderstanding’ Led To Death And Destruction In Gaza
There is only one reason why Gaza and Israel’s South were dragged into yet another devastating confrontation between the IDF and Hamas: toxic masculinity. We now know that another redundant escalation was sparked by a mistake. IDF soldiers were patrolling Gaza’s perimeter fence when they heard something and thought they were being shot at. So…
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Fast Forward Israel And Hamas Agree To Gaza Truce
Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, agreed on a truce on Thursday, two Palestinian officials said, an understanding that would end an escalation in fighting that has drawn mutual threats of war. There was no formal comment from Israel, but an Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity denied…
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Fast Forward 9 Israelis Wounded In Hamas Rocket Salvo — Palestinian Mom And Baby Killed In Retaliatory Strikes
At least 9 Israelis were wounded when Gaza militants fired scores of rockets into Israel and the Israeli military responded with air strikes on Wednesday despite talk from both sides of progress towards a possible truce to avert a fourth war in a decade. A senior member of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that controls…
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Fast Forward Arson Balloon Launched From Gaza Into City Of Beersheba
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An arson balloon believed to have been launched from Gaza landed in the major southern Israeli city of Beersheba. The cluster of balloons, carrying an incendiary device, landed on a street in the city’s east on Monday. The road was closed to cars and pedestrians as police sappers arrived to defuse the device….
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Fast Forward 3 Gazan Palestinians, Including 12-Year-Old Boy, Killed In Border Clashes
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three Gazan Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, were killed during clashes at the Israel-Gaza border. Some 7,000 Palestinians gathered in several spots along the border and participated in riots including throwing rocks and burning tires and throwing pipe bombs and other incendiary devices. The boy, 12, was identified by Palestinian officials as…
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Fast Forward U.N. Relief Agency Lays Off Staff In Gaza And West Bank After Trump Cuts Aid
The United Nations said Wednesday it had been forced to lay off more than 250 Palestinian employees in Gaza and the West Bank and cut services after the United States slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, the Washington Post reported. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, which provides assistance for Palestinian refugees, said…
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Fast Forward Israeli Minister Predicts Gaza-Style Measures For U.S.-Mexico Border
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United States could apply some of the security measures used for Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip to its own frontier with Mexico, an Israeli cabinet minister said on Tuesday. Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan last month hosted his U.S. counterpart, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, among aides to President Donald…
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Fast Forward Kushner Threatens To Abandon Gaza Rebuilding Plan Amid Growing Violence
Five months ago, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, began shifting his focus from brokering a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians to the seemingly easier endeavor of solving the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But now, with a new cycle of violence deterring foreign investors from aiding Gaza, Kushner and Jason Greenblatt,…
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