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 Gaza Drowns in Sewage as Egypt Cuts Fuel Supplies in Hamas Feud
Children waded through sewage submerging the streets of a central Gaza neighbourhood on Thursday, a day after one of the blockaded Palestinian enclave’s largest waste water treatment plants stopped for lack of fuel. Fetid muck, which bubbles up from manholes and overflows from the idle plant when waste goes untreated, could soon spill into the…
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Fast Forward Naturalized Palestinian Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Lying About Bomber Past
A naturalized American citizen of Palestinian descent pleaded not guilty to charges that she lied about her conviction in the deadly bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket in order to gain U.S. citizenship. Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, appeared Wednesday in federal court in Detroit, where she was granted citizenship in 2004. She was released on bond,…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Stabs Israeli Soldier Dead on Bus
An 18-year old Israeli soldier was stabbed to death by a Palestinian residing in Israel illegally while on a bus in northern Israel. Police are calling the Wednesday morning incident a terrorist attack. The assailant was a 16-year-old Palestinian boy from Jenin. The attack occurred in Afula on a bus traveling from Nazareth to Tel…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Negotiators Quit Peace Talks Over Israeli Settlement Plans
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of progress in U.S.-brokered statehood talks clouded by Israeli settlement building. The development would mark a new low point for the talks with Israel that resumed in July and which officials from both sides have said have made little headway….
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Backs Down From Plans to Build 24,000 New Settler Homes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered on Tuesday a reassessment of plans to build nearly 24,000 settler homes, saying he feared an international outcry that would divert attention from Israel’s lobbying against a nuclear deal with Iran. The right-wing Israeli leader announced the reversal in the face of stiff U.S. opposition to settlement expansion in the…
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Fast Forward U.S. Furious Over Plans for 24,000 New Homes for Jewish Settlers
The United States was both caught unawares and displeased by reports that Israel is making plans to build nearly 24,000 more settler homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, a spokeswoman said. “We are deeply concerned by these latest reports that over 20,000 additional units are in the early planning stages,” State Department…
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Fast Forward Young and British-Educated, Isra Al-Modallal Is New Public Face of Hamas
The Islamist Hamas group, long shunned by the West and increasingly isolated in the Middle East, has appointed its first spokeswoman, a 23-year-old who used to live in Britain and speaks with a Yorkshire accent. Isra Al-Modallal’s job is to convey the views of the Hamas government that controls Gaza to the foreign media. She…
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Forward 50 2013 Martin Indyk
A career encompassing almost all aspects of Middle East policy has this year landed Martin Indyk at the pinnacle of American efforts to resolve the decades long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As the United States special envoy to the peace talks, Indyk, 62, is tasked with a job few envy. It’s a task many before him have…
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