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 Amnesty Says Israel Response to Soldier’s Gaza Capture Was War Crime
The response of Israel’s military to the capture of an Israeli soldier during last summer’s Gaza conflict amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a new report. Following the capture into a terror tunnel of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who later was declared dead based on evidence at the scene of…
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News Baby Boomlet Hits Israel — 9 Months After Gaza
When Jessica Zimet gave birth to her daughter Aviah in April, the Tel Aviv hospital was so crowded, she said, that she was rushed out of the delivery room to make space for the next expectant mother. Born nine months after the start of Operation Protective Edge, Aviah was part of what some are calling…
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Breaking News UN Calls for Release of 2 Israelis Held in Gaza
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Palestinians in Gaza to provide information about two Israelis believed to be held there. Ban on Monday also called for their prompt return to their families, the Associated Press reported. Ethiopian-Israel Avera Mengistu is believed to have climbed over the security fence between Israel and Gaza last September….
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News A Year Later, Palestinian Family Mourns 4 Boys Killed on Gaza Beach
Muhammad Subhi Bakr was once an avid fisherman. But now the 53-year-old can barely bring himself to go to the Gaza City beach, where his family has run a fishing business for generations. That was where his son Ismail died in an Israeli strike last summer during Israel’s 51-day war with Hamas. Ismail was one…
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News At Kibbutz Near Gaza, Wounds Are Still Healing 1 Year After War
When Arnon Avni gives tours of Kibbutz Nirim, he always stops several yards short of a small electrical tower near the preschool. That was where a Hamas mortar struck three of his friends at the tail end of last summer’s war between Israel and Gaza. Two died, and the third lost both of his legs….
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Opinion Why Israel’s Reaction to the Hamas Prisoner Has Everything to Do With Race
Did race have anything to do with the way the Israeli government dealt with the kidnapping of Ethiopian-Israeli citizen Avraham Mengitsu? That question has been reverberating through Israeli social media, but the answer doesn’t seem to be as clear cut. Two days ago, Israel de-classified information pertaining to the kidnapping of two Israeli citizens. One…
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Breaking News Desperate Palestinians Eye Risky Jump Over Gaza Fence
From his spartan room in the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, 18-year-old Abdalla al-Haddad could glimpse a narrow chance at a better life: it was less than a mile and a 3-1/2-meter fence away. So on a chilly night in February, he and a friend made a dash for it, scrambling over the…
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Breaking News Did Netanyahu Ask Europe Leaders to Vote Against Israel at U.N.?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked several European leaders to support the United Nations Human Rights Council report that slams Israel’s Gaza war actions, a British newspaper reported. Netanyahu called British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other “key allies” last Friday before the Human Rights Council vote later that day, according…
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