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 Gaza Girls Pirouette in Pink at Only Ballet School
The group of girls, ponytailed and dressed in pink, stretched their arms out to the sides and pivoted onto their toes, trying desperately to hold still. Eagle-eyed, the instructor surveyed Gaza’s latest crop of would-be ballerinas. Fifty girls aged five to eight are now enrolled in the ballet school at the Al-Qattan Center for Children…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Burn British Flag on Balfour Declaration Anniversary
Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza burned British, American and Israeli flags to mark the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Members of the al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades brandished guns, swords and axes at a demonstration Monday in Rafah, the the London-based Daily Mail reported. The demonstrators then burned the flags of the three countries. Signed on Nov….
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Fast Forward Ehud Barak Faces Civil Suit by Victim of Gaza Flotilla
Relatives of a 19-year-old U.S. citizen killed in Israel’s 2010 storming of a Turkish-led aid flotilla are suing former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for the raid, in which nine activists died. Furkan Dogan, a dual Turkish-U.S. citizen, was filming on the flotilla carrying some 700 activists attempting to land humanitarian aid in circumvention of…
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Fast Forward Does Doctors Without Borders Strike Reveal U.S. Double Standard on Israel?
(JTA) — One of the low points of last year’s Gaza war was Israel’s August 3 strike outside a United Nations school in the city of Rafah. The strike, meant to hit a military target according to the Israel Defense Forces, killed at least 10 people and injured dozens. It was the latest in a string…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back at Gaza After Ashdod Rocket Attack
Israel’s Air Force attacked what the Israeli military called four “terrorist sites” in the Gaza Strip after a rocket attack from Gaza on southern Israel. The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted over the southern Israeli port city of Ashdod at least one rocket fired from Gaza late on Monday night, the IDF said. No…
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Fast Forward Gaza Rocket Strikes Israel Greenhouse
A rocket launched at southern Israel from Gaza landed on a greenhouse. The rocket was launched early Monday morning. It did not set off the Code Red rocket warning because it was believed to be heading for an unpopulated area, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The remains of the rocket were discovered Monday afternoon…
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Fast Forward Israel Hits Back at Gaza After Rocket Fire
Israel carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Palestinian militants there fired rockets into southern Israel. The early morning air strikes targeted two training camps belonging to the Islamist group Hamas, causing no injuries, officials and witnesses said. Gaza militants fired at least two rockets into Israel late on Friday, Israeli…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Gaza After Sniper Fire Hits Kibbutz
Israel’s Air Force stuck a Hamas military base in the northern Gaza Strip in retaliation for the firing from Gaza on homes in a southern Israeli kibbutz. The sniper fire from Gaza on Wednesday evening hit several homes in Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara, located on the border with Gaza. No one was injured in the attack….
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