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 European Union Join Arab States in Seeking Access for UN Rights Envoy to Gaza
The European Union (EU) joined Palestinian and Arab delegations on Monday in calling on Israel to allow a U.N. human rights investigator to visit Gaza, while the United States and Israel snubbed the debate. Israel has not cooperated with special rapporteur Makarim Wibisono, who presented his first report to the Human Rights Council based on…
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Fast Forward Israel Did Best To Limit Gaza Casualties, Report From Pro-Israel Group Asserts
Israel’s military went far beyond its legal obligation last summer during its Gaza operation to prevent civilian casualties, according to report by a panel of former senior U.S. military officials and legal experts. The Gaza Conflict Task Force report, which was released Wednesday, was commissioned by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, or JINSA….
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Fast Forward Israel Eases Gaza Embargo on Fruit and Vegetables
Israel imported its first fruit and vegetables from the Gaza Strip in almost eight years on Thursday, in a partial easing of an economic blockade maintained since the Islamist group Hamas seized control of the Palestinian territory. Twenty-seven tonnes of tomatoes and five tonnes of eggplants were trucked across the border under an Israeli plan…
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Fast Forward Three Israelis Charged with Smuggling Goods to Gaza
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Three Israelis were charged with smuggling goods to Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The men were charged on Monday in the Beersheba District Court with, among other charges, contacting a foreign agent, aiding a terror group in its war against Israel, facilitating the transfer of illegal goods to terror groups, money laundering…
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Culture The Occupations and Preoccupations of Arkadi Zaides
In the video clip, a Jewish boy of no more than 12, seemingly drunk on Purim wine and missing a shoe, kicks and slaps the exterior of a Palestinian home in Hebron. A man in a kippah, perhaps the boy’s father, appears and drags the boy away. The man turns to a soldier off camera…
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Opinion Banksy Goes to Gaza
Banksy’s street art in Gaza. The elusive English street artist Banksy has produced four new works in the Gaza Strip, taking wry aim at the human toll of last summer’s conflict. Six months to the day after the end of the Gaza war, which killed more than 2,100 Palestinians — including hundreds of children —…
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Fast Forward Israel May Probe Gaza Scorched-Earth ‘Hannibal Directive’ That Killed 40
The Israeli military is expected to decide shortly whether to launch a criminal probe into the implementation of the Hannibal directive on the day 1st Lt. Hadar Goldin was snatched into a tunnel during Operation Protective Edge last summer. The directive clarifies the procedures to be used immediately following the possible abduction of a soldier….
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Fast Forward Palestinian Hackers Use Porn in Cyberattack
A group of hackers from Gaza used pornographic videos in a wide-scale cyberattack on several Israeli institutions and individuals. A report titled Operation Arid Viper: Bypassing the Iron Dome released Monday by the cyber security company Trend Micro detailed the hacking campaign carried out by the tech workers from Gaza. The report called the strategy…
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