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 A Year after Gaza War, Border Communities are Growing
(JTA) — Few communities were as battered during last summer’s conflict between Israel and Hamas as Nahal Oz, a kibbutz of some 350 people located just a mile from the Gaza border. At one point in the fighting, 40 missiles landed on the community in a single day. Hamas militants attempting to infiltrate the kibbutz…
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Israel News Revisiting the Gaza Withdrawal, 10 Years Later
This year the Jewish fast day Tisha B’Av had special resonance for Israelis on the nationalist right: It marked 10 years since the evacuation of Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. On the Jewish calendar, the so-called disengagement was carried out the day after Tisha B’Av, on August 15, 2005….
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Fast Forward Palestinian Shot Dead by Israeli Soldiers Near Gaza Border
Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said several suspects approached the fence at two different points and did not heed calls by soldiers to stop. She said one group threw stones at the security fence…
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Opinion Gaza Was Like Home — But I Supported Disengagement Anyway
I first became acquainted with the Jewish settlements of Gaza during my Israeli army service in 2002. This was during the second Intifada and my parents, living in New Jersey and unable to call me due to their deafness, were extremely worried about me. To calm them, when I had a free moment, I’d walk…
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Fast Forward Amnesty Says Israel Response to Soldier’s Gaza Capture Was War Crime
The response of Israel’s military to the capture of an Israeli soldier during last summer’s Gaza conflict amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said in a new report. Following the capture into a terror tunnel of Lt. Hadar Goldin, who later was declared dead based on evidence at the scene of…
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News Baby Boomlet Hits Israel — 9 Months After Gaza
When Jessica Zimet gave birth to her daughter Aviah in April, the Tel Aviv hospital was so crowded, she said, that she was rushed out of the delivery room to make space for the next expectant mother. Born nine months after the start of Operation Protective Edge, Aviah was part of what some are calling…
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Fast Forward UN Calls for Release of 2 Israelis Held in Gaza
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Palestinians in Gaza to provide information about two Israelis believed to be held there. Ban on Monday also called for their prompt return to their families, the Associated Press reported. Ethiopian-Israel Avera Mengistu is believed to have climbed over the security fence between Israel and Gaza last September….
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News A Year Later, Palestinian Family Mourns 4 Boys Killed on Gaza Beach
Muhammad Subhi Bakr was once an avid fisherman. But now the 53-year-old can barely bring himself to go to the Gaza City beach, where his family has run a fishing business for generations. That was where his son Ismail died in an Israeli strike last summer during Israel’s 51-day war with Hamas. Ismail was one…
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