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 3 Palestinians Killed in Clashes With Israel
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who tried to ram them with a car and another who took part in a violent demonstration in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the military and medical officials said. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli army fire killed another Palestinian during a border protest, medics said. A campaign of…
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Fast Forward Israeli Reservist Held by Britain on War Crimes Allegations
An Israeli reserve military officer was detained in the United Kingdom over accusations of war crimes. The officer, who fought in the 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, was detained several weeks ago after landing in Britain on a business trip, Ynet reported over the weekend. He was released several hours later with the assistance…
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Fast Forward IDF Strikes Hamas Targets After Gaza Rocket Attack
Israel’s Air Force struck two Hamas military posts in Gaza in retaliation for a rocket fired from the coastal strip at southern Israel. The rocket fired from Gaza on Sunday night, which caused sirens to sound in several southern Israeli communities, landed in an open area, causing no injuries, according to the Israel Defense Forces….
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Life Pirouettes and Plenty of Pink at Gaza’s 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 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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