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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Breaking News Three Rockets Launched at Israel From Gaza, No Injuries
Terrorists from the Gaza Strip launched at Israel three rockets, one of which hit an uninhabited area in Israeli territory. Security forces were scanning the area where the rocket that landed in Israel was reported to have hit, Army Radio reported Friday. No one was injured in the explosion, which did not result in any…
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Breaking News A Gazan Sentenced to Death for Collaborating with Israel
A Gaza court sentenced a man to death for collaborating with Israel. On Thursday, a military court ordered the 30-year-old to be hanged for cooperating with “enemy entities,” the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. A year ago, 18 accused collaborators were killed by Hamas, the terrorist group that runs Gaza, for cooperating with Israel.
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Breaking News 4 Gazans Killed By Detonation of Israeli Rocket Found in Rubble
At least four Palestinians were killed and more than 30 wounded in southern Gaza when unexploded ordnance from last summer’s war with Israel was moved. The rocket went off while rubble was being cleared from a home in Rafah in order to begin reconstruction, the Palestinian Maan news agency reported. The four killed were all…
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Breaking News Gaza Hosting a West Bank Soccer Team for First Time in 15 Years
A Palestinian soccer team in Gaza is hosting a team from the West Bank for the first time since 2000. After receiving permission from Israel, the West Bank club, Al-Ahly from Hebron, crossed into Gaza on Tuesday for Thursday’s match against Shejaia, Reuters reported. Israel’s office that controls travel in and out of Gaza confirmed…
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Breaking News A Year after Gaza War, Border Communities are Growing
(JTA) — Few communities were as battered during last summer’s conflict between Israel and Hamas as Nahal Oz, a kibbutz of some 350 people located just a mile from the Gaza border. At one point in the fighting, 40 missiles landed on the community in a single day. Hamas militants attempting to infiltrate the kibbutz…
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Israel News Revisiting the Gaza Withdrawal, 10 Years Later
This year the Jewish fast day Tisha B’Av had special resonance for Israelis on the nationalist right: It marked 10 years since the evacuation of Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. On the Jewish calendar, the so-called disengagement was carried out the day after Tisha B’Av, on August 15, 2005….
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Breaking News Palestinian Shot Dead by Israeli Soldiers Near Gaza Border
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said several suspects approached the fence at two different points and did not heed calls by soldiers to stop. She said one group threw stones at the security fence…
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Opinion Gaza Was Like Home — But I Supported Disengagement Anyway
I first became acquainted with the Jewish settlements of Gaza during my Israeli army service in 2002. This was during the second Intifada and my parents, living in New Jersey and unable to call me due to their deafness, were extremely worried about me. To calm them, when I had a free moment, I’d walk…
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