This is the Forward’s coverage of the Palestinian people, an Arab ethnic group native to the Middle East. They are a party to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Israeli Cabinet Backs Bill To Force-Feed Jailed Palestinians On Hunger Strike
Israel’s cabinet approved on Sunday a proposed law that would enable authorities to force-feed Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike, a practice opposed by the country’s medical association. Israel has long been concerned that hunger strikes by Palestinians in its jails could end in death and trigger waves of protests in the occupied West…
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Fast Forward Deep Splits Bared in Israeli Coalition on Peace With Palestinians
(JTA) — When Israel’s coalition government formed last month, its constituent parties all but ruled out establishing a Palestinian state in the near future. But that doesn’t mean they can agree on what to do instead. Speaking at the Herzliya Conference this week, Israel’s premier diplomatic and security policy gathering, senior Israeli government officials struck…
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Opinion Why the Forward Sent a Brave Reporter to Gaza
When the Forward sent Naomi Zeveloff to Israel last August to be our first full-time reporter there, the title she went with — Middle East correspondent — was chosen consciously and deliberately. Israel’s policies and actions in the region have simply grown too intertwined with those of its neighbors for her to cover only Israel,…
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Fast Forward Two-State Solution Would Be $170B Windfall to Palestine — and Israel
Israel’s economy would gain $120 billion and the Palestinian economy some $50 billion over the next decade in a two-state solution, a study has found. A peace agreement could also see Palestinian income rise by 36 percent and Israeli by 5 percent, according to the Rand Corp. study released Monday, which also said the Israeli…
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Fast Forward Welcome to Yasser Arafat Street in French Town
The decision to name the street after Arafat, founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who died in 2004, was approved Tuesday by a municipal committee of Seyne-sur-mer near Nice, the French news agency AFP reported. The report said that the naming, when it happens, will be the first time a street is named after the…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Gaza After Islamic State Sympathizers Claim Rocket Attack
Israel retaliated on Thursday for rockets fired at it from Gaza with bombing raids against three militant training camps, and a radical group sympathetic with Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks on Israel. Witnesses and medics said the predawn attacks on two camps belonging to Hamas, which dominates the Gaza Strip, and to the…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Rip Soccer Chief for Stopping Bid To Oust Israel from FIFA
The head of the Palestine Football Association came under fire for withdrawing a request to suspend Israel from FIFA, the international soccer body. Jibril Rajoub said prior to Friday’s proposed vote that Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany convinced him to withdraw the request. In place of the vote, the FIFA Congress called for the formation…
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Fast Forward Israel Moves To Toughen Sentences for Stone-Throwers
Israeli cabinet ministers approved on Sunday legislation aimed at imposing tougher penalties on stone-throwers, a measure that stemmed from a wave of Palestinian protests last year in occupied East Jerusalem. A draft law that won preliminary parliamentary approval late last year allowed for sentences of up to 20 years in jail for throwing a rock…
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