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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Fast Forward Israel Defuses Explosives Near Gaza Border
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli troops defused two explosives found near the security fence on the border with Gaza. The devices discovered on Tuesday “were planted in order to attack IDF troops on the border,” the Israel Defense Forces spokesman said. No one was injured in the incident. Earlier Tuesday, Palestinian media reported that Israeli troops and…
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Israel News A Gaza Doctor Beloved By Jews And Arabs Is About To Take The IDF To Court For Killing His Daughters
He was the beloved doctor of both Palestinians and Israeli Jews, the one who brought their children into the world. Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, the Gaza-based Palestinian obstetrician and gynecologist who was the first Palestinian physician from the occupied territories to receive an appointment at an Israeli hospital, still believes passionately in peace and co-existence between…
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Fast Forward Ashkelon Beach Struck By Rocket From Gaza
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rocket fired from Gaza exploded on the beach in Ashkelon in southern Israel. The rocket fired late Wednesday night is the at least fifth in the last month and the second this week, including several claimed by an ISIS-backed group operating in the Sinai Peninsula. The Code Red alarm did not…
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Fast Forward Gaza War Report Slams Netanyahu And Military Leadership
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s prime minister, defense minister and army chief of staff did not update the Security Cabinet about the serious threat of Hamas tunnels from Gaza, the nation’s state comptroller said in a report on the 2014 Gaza War. The Security Cabinet did not have enough information about the threat posed by the…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Hamas Targets In Gaza After Rocket Attack
Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes in Gaza on Monday, wounding at least four people, witnesses said, after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory hit an empty area in southern Israel. The Israeli military said its planes attacked five positions belonging to Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, in…
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Fast Forward Israel Warns of Possible Escalation in Gaza After Rocket Fire
(JTA) — Two Israeli ministers warned of a possible escalation along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip. Education Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday that a conflict in Gaza is a “matter of when, not if,” the Times of Israel reported. And in an interview with Army Radio on Tuesday, Housing Minister Yoav Galant, a former…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back at Gaza After Rocket Attack
(JTA) — The Israeli Air Force attacked targets in the northern Gaza Strip following the firing of a rocket that landed in an empty field near the southern city of Ashkelon. The aerial attack on Monday came just hours after Israeli tanks shelled targets in Gaza, according to media reports. Both strikes came in response to…
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Fast Forward Israeli Company Bidding Hard to Build Trump’s Wall
The Israeli company that built Israel’s border fence is making a play this week to construct U.S. President Donald Trump’s wall with Mexico. According to Bloomberg, the U.S.-based unit of Magal Security Systems Ltd. presented at a January 31 conference on border security attended by officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The company,…
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