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 Hamas should release all the hostages. But it’s foolish to think that would end the war
Israel's commitment to territorial expansion is what keeps the hostages in captivity
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News ‘You can’t fake it’: Why images of starving children in Gaza are so difficult to dismiss
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has seen how powerful images can ‘move the dial’
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Opinion As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here’s what changed my mind.
Many genocides don't closely resemble the Holocaust — and many of us are too ignorant about that
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene may be first Republican lawmaker to call Gaza war a ‘genocide’
A far-right firebrand appears to part from her party’s pro-Israel consensus
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Fast Forward 35 rabbis arrested in NYC and DC protests for Gaza food aid
The arrests come as reports of mass starvation in Gaza draw global outcry
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Opinion For Jews who have supported Israel, famine in Gaza may be a breaking point
The 'troubled committed' are facing a crisis — which means that Israel is, too
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Fast Forward Americans’ support for Israel in Gaza plummets to record low, new Gallup poll finds
Just 8% of Democrats now support Israel’s actions in Gaza, down from 24% a year ago
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Fast Forward As images from Gaza spread, US rabbis wrestle with war’s morality from the pulpit
More than a thousand rabbis have signed a public letter demanding Israel stop “using starvation as a weapon of war"
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Opinion Americans are waking up to right-wing antisemitism. We’re still ignoring the root problem
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Opinion Israel has a crucial lesson to learn from apartheid South Africa. It isn’t what you think
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Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
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Fast Forward Prominent rabbi and fierce Mamdani critic turns his criticism toward Jews and Israel
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Opinion Israel faces a most dire threat, and there’s only one solution
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News Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes admits ‘at least 6 million’ Jews were killed in Nazi Germany
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Fast Forward Final assailant charged in 2021 antisemitic assault of Joey Borgen sentenced to 2 years in prison
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