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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Fast Forward UN Refugee Agency Employees Evacuated From Gaza Over Security Concerns
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Most of the international employees of the United Nations refugee agency in the Gaza Strip were evacuated after what the agency called “a series of worrying security incidents.” Nine of the 11 members of the foreign staff of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency left Gaza for Israel though the Erez…
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Fast Forward Gazan Teen Killed By Israeli Troops During Yom Kippur Rioting
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of Palestinian demonstrators rioted along the Gaza border on Yom Kippur, throwing firebombs and rocks at Israel Defense Forces soldiers. The Israeli troops responded with riot dispersal methods, the IDF said in a statement. The Gaza Health Ministry said a Palestinian teen was killed and at least three others injured in…
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Community Trump’s Aid Cuts Could End Lifesaving Medical Care For Palestinian Children
A version of this article originally appeared in Plus61J, an Australian Jewish publication. While receiving her dialysis treatment at East Jerusalem’s Augusta Victoria hospital last week, nine-year-old Amani Hababa broke into laughter. Two rednosed therapeutic clowns were singling her out for special attention, babbling nonsense verses, playing guitar and singing “Amani is the sweetest.” Six…
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Fast Forward 11-Year-Old Palestinian Killed By Israel As Gaza Protests Rage
Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians — including an 11-year-old boy — and wounded at least 30 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, Palestinian medical officials said. The Israeli military said it used force necessary to prevent border breaches by some 12,000 Palestinians who massed at several points near…
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Opinion 25 Years After Oslo, Palestinians Don’t Trust Hamas — Or The PA
Earlier this month, senior Hamas leader and member of Parliament Atef Odwan posted a poll on Facebook that consisted of a single yes-or-no question: “Would you re-elect [PA President Mahmoud Abbas]?” The results were more or less predetermined, since Odwan’s page is frequented mainly by Hamas supporters, and because Abbas is perhaps the most frowned…
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Fast Forward IDF Investigating Deaths Of Two Palestinian Teens During Gaza Border Protests
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli military said it would investigate the deaths of two Palestinian teens during protests on Israel’s border with Gaza. The teens were both shot in the chest by Israeli snipers, the Palestinian news agency Maan reported. They were identified as Bilal Mustafa Khafaja, 17, and Ahmad Misbah Abu Tyour, 16, who died…
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Opinion Trump Treatment Of The Palestinians Isn’t Just Cruel. It’s Dangerous.
On a warm day in 2014 in al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah, Mohammad Eliyan, who represents the central West Bank refugee camps at the PLO, was complaining to me about UNRWA. Every year for the past five, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees had been scaling back its services, he said. At that point,…
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Fast Forward Israeli Army Orders Investigation Into Killing Of Palestinian Teens In Gaza
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s military said on Tuesday it would launch a criminal investigation into two incidents in which its troops shot dead Palestinian teenagers taking part in protests along the Gaza border. The inquiry into the deaths of Abed Nabi, 18, on March 30, and 15-year-old Othman Helles on July 13 was the first…
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