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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Opinion PHOTOS: How To Turn a Gaza War Into Art
As donors pledge billions to rebuild Gaza in the wake of Hamas’s war with Israel, one Gazan is engaged in another type of construction: turning remnants of the war into works of art. Hossam al-Dabbus, a 33-year-old who works in Gaza’s honey industry, has collected shells, rockets and missiles from the war that killed around…
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Fast Forward U.N.’s Ban Ki-Moon Calls Gaza Destruction ‘Beyond Description’
Israel opened the border to the first truckloads of building materials for post-war reconstruction in Gaza on Tuesday and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the destruction in the Palestinian enclave “beyond description.” Gaza was blockaded by Israel and Egypt for years before the most recent conflict, which ended in August after two months, because,…
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Opinion Is Israel Abandoning Push for Two States?
In a potentially explosive report, veteran Yediot Ahronot defense commentator Ron Ben-Yishai writes on Ynet that Israel is headed toward a new confrontation with the United States and its allies in the wake of this summer’s Operation Protective Edge. The Americans and Europeans insist that Israel must strive for a two-state solution with the Palestinians,…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Makes Call for New Peace Talks as U.S. Vows $212M Gaza Aid
Secretary of State John Kerry called on Sunday for a renewed commitment to achieving Middle East peace, saying a lasting deal between Israel, the Palestinians and all their neighbors was possible. But prospects for a renewed peace process appeared dim as Kerry offered no specifics on how to restart negotiations in his speech to a…
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Fast Forward Gaza Aid Conference May Fall Short of $4B Goal
Senior U.S. officials voiced doubts on Friday that an international donors conference to be held in Cairo this weekend will meet the Palestinians’ full request for $4 billion in aid pledges to rebuild the Gaza Strip after it was devastated by a 50-day war between Israel and Hamas. Secretary of State John Kerry will join…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Leader Arrives in Gaza for Unity Cabinet Meeting
Palestinian technocrat prime minister Rami Hamdallah arrived in the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip on Thursday to convene the first meeting of a unity government there since a brief civil war in 2007 between Hamas and forces loyal to the Fatah party. Dozens of Fatah security personnel loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas and policemen of the Hamas-led…
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Fast Forward Maccabi Tel Aviv Routed by Cleveland Cavaliers in LeBron James Return
The NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers routed Maccabi Tel Aviv in an international exhibition game that pitted Cavs’ new coach David Blatt against his former team. Maccabi Tel Aviv, the 2014 Euroleague and Israel Super Basketball League champions lost Sunday’s game 107-80. The exhibition game had been scheduled long before Blatt signed on as Cavs’ coach in…
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Israel News U.N. Maps Show Pinpoint Accuracy of Israel’s Strikes on Gaza
In their latest effort to rebut war crimes allegations, Israel’s defenders are seizing on a surprising tool: a collection of maps assembled by the United Nations as a guide for reconstructing the homes, institutions and, to the extent possible, lives of surviving victims destroyed by the Gaza campaign. The maps and aerial photographs provide a…
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