This is the Forward’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, which began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants crossed into southern Israel and massacred civilians, prompting Israel to invade the Gaza Strip.
Israel-Hamas War
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Fast Forward 2 Israeli civilians and 3 Lebanese attackers killed in escalating fighting on Israel’s northern border
The deaths of Mira Ayalon, 76, and her son Barak, 45, in Sunday’s Hezbollah strike bring the total number of Israelis killed in the northern cross-border clashes to 15, nine of them soldiers, since October 7
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News ‘I don’t belong’: A Jewish student leaves Occidental College over wartime protests
A Jewish Occidental professor said there is no college campus where students — Jewish or Arab — can be insulated from upsetting talk about the Middle East
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Fast Forward 10 numbers that define the 100 days since Oct. 7
From hostages remaining to dollars raised to college presidents resigned, a by-the-numbers look at the last 100 days
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Politics New survey: Democratic voters less inclined to support politicians opposing a cease-fire
At least 65 Democratic members of Congress have called for the end of the Israel-Hamas war, but President Joe Biden has said Israel needs to root out the terrorist group
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News Citing the Holocaust, Israel offers rebuttal to South Africa’s genocide charges at the International Court of Justice
Israel's lawyers said the proceedings at the International Court of Justice cheapened the term "genocide"
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Fast Forward Indiana University cancels exhibition of prominent Palestinian artist
Critics accuses the university of scrapping the show ‘to distance itself from the cause of Palestinian freedom’
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News Israel’s ravaged kibbutzes have become museums of the macabre. Their former residents want to go home.
One hundred days after Oct. 7, questions loom about how to handle the wreckage
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Fast Forward South African national cricket team removes Jewish captain, citing anti-Israel protests against him
David Teeger previously faced hate speech allegations against him after he expressed support for Israeli soldiers
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Culture The manosphere says women owe their husbands sex — Judaism says the opposite
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Fast Forward Georgia’s Jewish senator called his newly minted GOP opponent an antisemite. Why?