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 Mentally-Ill Gaza Woman Killed by Israel Soldiers
The Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the Gaza Strip in an area near the border that Israel has declared a no-go zone for Palestinians, local hospital officials said on Saturday. Gaza residents said it was not clear why 50-year-old Amna Qdaih, who they said suffered from a mental illness, was near…
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Music Business Coalition Pushes Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu To Forge Peace Deal
The latest coalition of Israelis and Palestinians hoping to affect the settlement of the conflict is not your usual bunch of peace activists. They are wealthy businesspeople who work in a broad range of sectors, from construction to high-tech. They don’t need to struggle to be heard in the halls of power — they already…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Opens Door To Extending Peace Talks
Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged on Wednesday he hopes at best to get Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a “framework” for a peace agreement by April 29, but that a final deal could take another nine months or more. Kerry brought the two sides back into negotiations on July 29 after a…
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Fast Forward Amnesty International Warns Israel on West Bank ‘War Crimes’
Israeli forces are using excessive, reckless violence in the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians over the past three years in what might constitute a war crime, Amnesty International said on Thursday. In a report entitled “Trigger Happy”, the human rights group accused Israel of allowing its soldiers to act with virtual impunity and…
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Opinion Handing the Western Wall to the Judaizers
Wikipedia Quick, if you’re a settler-dominated government uninterested in sharing Jerusalem with the Palestinian people, what’s a good way to telegraph your position without raising a ruckus? Well, one good way would be to turn over a sizable portion of Judaism’s holiest site to the management of a maximalist settler group — which is precisely…
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Fast Forward Canadian Pro-Palestinian Group Protests Ehud Barak Visit
A pro-Palestinian group in Canada, calling Ehud Barak an “Israel war criminal,” is protesting a visit by the former Israeli prime minister. The Canada-Palestine Association is among pro-Palestinian groups in British Columbia protesting an economic conference to be held in suburban Vancouver at the end of the month that Barak is scheduled to attend. It…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Youth Riot on Temple Mount, Injuring Israeli Guards
Israeli police entered the Temple Mount to disperse dozens of Palestinian youths, who threw rocks and firecrackers at security forces. Some 50 protesters had slept at the Temple Mount overnight Monday, in advance of a Knesset debate scheduled for Tuesday on extending Israeli sovereignty over the site that is holy to both Jews and Palestinians….
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Fast Forward U.N. Report Cites Apartheid in Palestinian Territories
Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip appear to amount to apartheid due to its systematic oppression of the Palestinian people and de facto expropriation of their land, a United Nations investigator said in a report. Richard Falk, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said that Palestinian rights are…
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