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 New Gaza Flotilla Leaves Port in Greece
A flotilla of boats planning to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip left a Greek port. The five Freedom Flotilla III boats, which left Crete on Thursday, are scheduled to arrive near the Gaza coast in three days. The boats are carrying solar panels and medical equipment, according to Ship to Gaza Sweden….
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Fast Forward White House Opposes U.N. Debate on Gaza Report
The Obama administration opposes any Security Council consideration of a United Nations report on last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “We challenge the very mechanism which created it,” John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said Tuesday, a day after the report’s publication. “And so we’re not going to have a…
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Fast Forward Gaza Rocket Narrowly Misses Kibbutz
Militants in the Gaza Strip launched a rocket at Israel on Tuesday which landed in open ground near a community close to the Palestinian enclave and Israel hit back at the launching site, the Israeli army said. There were no injuries or damage after the rocket fell near the community of Yad Mordechai, Israeli police…
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Fast Forward Israel Pushes Back Hard Against U.N. Gaza ‘War Crimes’ Report
(JTA) — This time, Israel and its supporters came prepared. Anticipating what they believed would be an unfair U.N. report on last summer’s Gaza War, the Israeli government and friendly groups in the United States were ready with at least three reports they say better reflects the reality of the five-week battle between Israel and Hamas….
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News U.N. Judge Warns Israel It Crossed Line by Bombing Gaza Civilians
Mary McGowan Davis, the American judge who led the independent United Nations probe into the events of last summer’s war in Gaza, said the main message committee members wanted to transmit is that Israel must reexamine its policy of using its military might against civilians, because it led to unprecedented destruction in Gaza and to…
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Opinion Think U.N. Gaza ‘War Crimes’ Report Is Biased? Read It First.
When the shouting dies down and folks take the time to read the actual content of the United Nations report on last summer’s Gaza war — all 183 pages plus side documents — you might see some very red faces in the world of pro-Israel activism. Well, maybe you won’t. The leaders and friends of…
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Fast Forward Flotilla Boat Sets Out in Bid To Break Gaza Blockade
A trawler from Italy was the first of three vessels to leave port in a bid to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Marianne of Gothenburg, which departed on Friday for Greece, is part of Freedom Flotilla III, according to Ship to Gaza Sweden. The boat, which was purchased jointly by the…
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Fast Forward Israel Accuses U.N. Child Rights Envoy of Ignoring Its Side
Israel has accused a senior U.N. official of misconduct in preparing a report that harshly criticized the Israeli army over the 2014 Gaza war while leaving it off a blacklist of states and armed groups that violate children’s rights in conflict. In his latest report on children and armed conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said…
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