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 Plans to Underground Concrete Wall To Thwart Gaza Tunnels
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense establishment plans to build a concrete wall that goes tens of yards underground as well as above ground along the Gaza Strip border. The plan, revealed on Thursday on the front page of the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Acharonot, will cost an estimated $568 million, less than previously estimated, according to…
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Opinion All Quiet on the Israel-Gaza Front? All the More Reason To Act Fast
Israel celebrates its independence the day after it mourns the citizens killed in its conflicts. The festivities are a welcome liberation from the grief those deaths caused. This pattern is built into the Israeli conception of the wars, too: Once the violence ends, it’s time to celebrate, not focus on the causes of the violence….
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Opinion Why Is the Left Silent About Gaza Tunnels?
The recent discovery of yet another Hamas tunnel from Gaza into Israel elicited shock and condemnation throughout the Jewish world. Not. Actually, though widely reported in Israel, and sporadically here in the United States, you could hear a pin drop in much of the progressive world, especially among those organizations pressing Israel to pursue peace…
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Fast Forward Israel Continues Terror Tunnel Search Amid Hamas Threats and Border Violence
Israel’s military said it had discovered a cross-border tunnel on Thursday built by the Islamist group Hamas from the Gaza Strip during a rare flare-up of violence along a border that has been largely quiet since a 2014 war. Gaza hospital officials said a 54-year-old woman had been killed and a man wounded by fragments…
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Fast Forward Hamas Terror Tunnel From Gaza Is Uncovered
Israel’s military said it had discovered on Thursday a cross-border tunnel built by the Islamist Hamas group from the Gaza Strip, a day after a rare flare-up of violence along the frontier. The military said Wednesday’s violence, in which Hamas militants fired mortar bombs at Israeli forces, may have been an attempt by the Islamist…
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Israel News For Parents of Israeli Soldiers Lost in Gaza, the War Never Ended
KFAR SABA, Israel (JTA) — One family lost their son in late July 2014. The other lost theirs on the first of August in the same year. One family has lobbied the United Nations and crossed an ocean in hopes of bringing their son’s remains back. The other mostly stays home. One family is sure…
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Israel News ADL Slams Sanders for Exaggeraring Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza War
The Anti-Defamation League has called on Sen. Bernie Sanders to publicly correct his statement that “over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza” in the war between Israel and Hamas in 2014. Sanders, I-Vt., a Democratic presidential candidate, made the statement in an with the editorial board of the New York Daily News published Monday….
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Fast Forward Gaza Construction Workers Unearth Ruins of 1,500-Year-Old Byzantine Church
Construction workers in Gaza have discovered ancient ruins that archaeologists say may be part of a Byzantine church dating from around 1,500 years ago, the Palestinian tourism and antiquities ministry said on Monday. The findings include segments of marble pillars with ornate Corinthian capitals, one nearly three meters (yards) long, and a 90 cm (35…
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