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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News Amid Rubble, Resolve in Rocket-Hit Israeli Town
They pick through the tangled foliage, Orthodox men with long beards and black kipahs, wearing white gloves and bright yellow vests, searching for body parts. A few yards over and four stories up, construction workers drive drills into a bombed apartment building. They speak to each other in Arabic. Can they read the Hebrew banner…
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The Schmooze What a Boob! Kardashian Deletes Gaza Tweet
Reality television star Kim Kardashian apologized for tweeting about the Gaza conflict. Kardashian apologized after two tweets in which she first told her followers she was “Praying for everyone in Israel,” and then tweeted that she was “Praying for everyone in Palestine and across the world!” Kardashian later deleted both tweets and issued an apology:…
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Israel News Real Winner in Gaza War? Could Be Hamas.
As Israel bombed Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip for a fifth day, Ali Al-Ahmed took to the streets of Gaza city in his pyjamas on Sunday to buy eggs and chocolate for his three children. “Terrifying, that’s how it feels,” he said. “But they are also terrorised on the other side of the…
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Fast Forward Gaza Journalists Wounded by Israeli Attack
Israeli aircraft hit two Gaza media buildings on Sunday, wounding eight journalists and drawing concern from press covering the fighting between Palestinian militants and the Jewish state. The Israeli military said the attacks were pinpoint strikes on Hamas communication devices located on the buildings’ roofs, and accused the Islamist group of using reporters as human…
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Israel News As Rockets Fly, Israel’s Grumpy Old Men Shrug
Emanuel Hatzofe, 84, took his time getting to the shelter of the thick concrete sea wall in Jaffa on Sunday when Israeli air-raid sirens over Tel Aviv warned of incoming rockets from the Gaza Strip. The retired sea captain, once a guerrilla with the pre-state Jewish underground, carried his wooden stool with him, as well…
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Fast Forward Obama Says ‘Preferable’ To Avoid Gaza Ground War
President Barack Obama insisted on Sunday that Israel had a right to defend itself but said it would be “preferable” to avoid an Israeli ground offensive in Gaza. He said persuading Israel not to attack would depend on the success of efforts by Middle East leaders to bring a halt to Hamas rocket fire into…
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Fast Forward Four Kids Dead as Israel Strike Hits Gaza Apartment
At least 11 Palestinian civilians, including four children, were killed on Sunday in what Hamas said was an Israeli air strike on a Gaza apartment building, the highest death toll in a single incident in five days of fighting. Israel gave off signs of a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-run enclave as the next…
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Opinion A Palestine That Israelis Can’t See
The status quo in Palestine and Israel is unsustainable. Anyone involved in the reality on the ground in this part of the world knows this for a fact. As such, one can view the current Palestinian bid to the United Nations General Assembly for non-member state status as a last-ditch effort by the secular Palestinian…
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