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 Israel Coordinates Transfer of Lion Cubs from Gaza
Israel coordinated the transfer of a pair of lion cubs from Gaza to a wildlife sanctuary in Jordan. The cubs, Max and Mona, were transferred to Israel from Gaza on Sunday through the Erez crossing and then taken to a sanctuary near Amman, where they arrived on Sunday evening. They first arrived at Erez on…
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Breaking News Blockade-Busting Boat Intercepted Off Gaza Coast
Israel’s Navy intercepted an activist ship in the waters off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Commandos from the Shayetet 13 naval special forces unit boarded the Marianne of Gothenburg ship and began sailing it to the Israeli port of Ashdod early on Monday morning. The takeover of the vessel and its approximately 20 passengers…
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News U.N. Report Shoots Down Israel’s Exoneration of Troops in Gaza Beach Killings
One of the little-noticed findings of the United Nations commission on possible Gaza war crimes is the panel’s strong criticism of Israel’s move to close the books on its military’s killing of four Palestinian boys on a Gaza City beach. The Independent Commission of Inquiry’s comments on the episode — one of the most widely…
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Breaking News Blockade-Busting Boat Heads for Gaza
A ship carrying some 70 pro-Palestinian activists, including an Israeli-Arab lawmaker, set sail from Crete to Gaza. The Swedish Marianne of Gothenburg ship is expected to arrive Sunday off the coast of Gaza in a bid to defy Israel’s naval blockade, the site news.walla.co.il reported Friday, hours after the vessel sailed. Both Israel and Egypt…
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Breaking News New Gaza Flotilla Leaves Port in Greece
A flotilla of boats planning to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip left a Greek port. The five Freedom Flotilla III boats, which left Crete on Thursday, are scheduled to arrive near the Gaza coast in three days. The boats are carrying solar panels and medical equipment, according to Ship to Gaza Sweden….
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Breaking News White House Opposes U.N. Debate on Gaza Report
The Obama administration opposes any Security Council consideration of a United Nations report on last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “We challenge the very mechanism which created it,” John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said Tuesday, a day after the report’s publication. “And so we’re not going to have a…
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Breaking News Gaza Rocket Narrowly Misses Kibbutz
Militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket at Israel on Tuesday which landed in open ground near a community close to the Palestinian enclave and Israel hit back at the launching site, the Israeli army said. There were no injuries or damage after the rocket fell near the community of Yad Mordechai, Israeli police…
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Breaking News Israel Pushes Back Hard Against U.N. Gaza ‘War Crimes’ Report
(JTA) — This time, Israel and its supporters came prepared. Anticipating what they believed would be an unfair U.N. report on last summer’s Gaza War, the Israeli government and friendly groups in the United States were ready with at least three reports they say better reflects the reality of the five-week battle between Israel and Hamas….
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