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 All We In Gaza Want Is That Israel Recognize Our Humanity
Today was a heartbreaking day for Gaza. While American and Israeli leaders celebrated a new American embassy in Jerusalem, protests along the Israel/Gaza border resulted in 55 Palestinian deaths. A number of them were children. Throughout the day, the numbers skyrocketed, from 16 to 40 in just one hour. Of those who survived, 2,000 were…
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Community Why Is Amnesty International Providing Excuses For Hamas?
For many years, Amnesty International has been a leader in the intense political war to demonize Israel using the façade of international law and human rights. Using the organization’s vast resources, officials have issued a torrent of statements, “reports,” and social media posts in this assault, including calls for war crimes investigations by the International…
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Fast Forward 55 Killed By Israel In Gaza Protests Over Jerusalem Embassy Opening
Israeli forces killed at least 55 Palestinians along the Gaza border on Monday as angry protesters demonstrated at the frontier on the day the United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem, health officials said. It was the highest Palestinian death toll in a single day since a series of protests dubbed the “Great March of…
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Opinion Is Israel Justified In Shooting Protestors On Gaza Border?
For the past six weeks, social media has been ablaze with the spectacle of thousands of Palestinians moving towards the border fence separating the Gaza Strip and Israel. Departing from six separate tent encampments built a few hundred meters from the border, the “Great Return March” has led to violent clashes, the loss of lives,…
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Fast Forward 18 Gazan Palestinians Dead In Protests On Day Of US Embassy Dedication In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA) — At least 18 Gazan Palestinians have been killed at the border with Israel, where at least 10,000 have gathered for protests in the hours before the dedication of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. Several thousand more Palestinian protesters are located more than a quarter of a mile from the border fence…
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Fast Forward Israeli Fighter Jets Destroy Gaza Terror Tunnel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli fighter jets destroyed a terrorist tunnel under construction in Gaza. The one-kilometer-long tunnel bombed in Gazan territory on Saturday night was located a few yards from the Erez humanitarian and pedestrian border crossing between Gaza and Israel. The tunnel intended to extend under the crossing and as far as an Israeli…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Protesters Damage Humanitarian Border Crossing, Leading To Closure
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel announced it would close the border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel which brings most of the humanitarian aid from Israel and the international community to the Palestinian people living in Gaza after it was vandalized for the second week in a row. Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced on…
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Fast Forward 1 Palestinian Killed By Israel In Gaza Border Protests
Israeli troops killed one Palestinian and wounded at least 170 protesters in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers said, bringing to 44 the number killed during a six-week protest at the Gaza-Israel border. The man killed was protesting east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, said medics, who said that seven other people were critically…
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