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 Soldiers ‘Deserve A Medal’ For Deadly Gaza Clashes: Defense Chief
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman asserted that there will not be an international into the Gaza border clashes that left at least 16 Palestinians dead and hundreds injured. “Israeli soldiers did what was necessary. I think all our soldiers deserve a medal,” Lieberman told Army Radio Sunday. “As for a commission of…
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Fast Forward 13 Palestinians Wounded On Gaza Border
Israeli troops fired warning shots towards Palestinian youths gathered at the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday, wounding 13 people, health officials said. Tension remained high in the area a day after deadly violence broke out in one of the biggest Palestinian demonstrations there in years. An Israeli military spokesman said he was checking the details of…
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Fast Forward 15 Palestinian Protesters Shot Dead By Israel On Gaza Border
At least 15 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured by Israeli security forces confronting one of the largest Palestinian demonstrations along the Israel-Gaza border in recent years, Gaza medical officials said. Tens of thousands of Palestinians, pressing for a right of return for refugees to what is now Israel, gathered at five locations along the…
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Fast Forward Israeli General Warns Soldiers Will Shoot Gaza Protesters Who Cross Border
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is preparing for a mass Palestinian protest on the border with Gaza for the annual Land Day observance. The army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, said in interviews Wednesday ahead of the planned protests of an estimated 100,000 Palestinians and another six weeks of protests that soldiers could use…
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Fast Forward David Friedman Denies Calling For Ouster Of Abbas
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said reports about an interview in which he suggested that the White House was waiting for someone to replace Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas misrepresented his comments. The interview will be published in Shevi’i, a Religious-Zionist newspaper that comes out on Fridays. Excerpts of the interview…
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Fast Forward Israel Deploys 100 Snipers To Thwart Protest On Gaza Border
The Israeli military has deployed more than 100 sharpshooters on the Gaza border ahead of a planned mass Palestinian demonstration near the frontier, Israel’s top general said in an interview published on Wednesday. Organizers hope thousands in Gaza will answer their call to flock, starting on Friday, to tent cities in five locations along the…
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Fast Forward Ahed Tamimi, Palestinian Teen Who Slapped Israeli Soldiers, Takes Plea Deal
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teen arrested in part for slapping and harassing Israeli soldiers standing guard in a West Bank Palestinian village, will spend eight months in prison under a plea deal. The teen has spent the last four months in prison after being arrested in the middle of the night at…
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Fast Forward 2 Israelis Killed In Palestinian Car Ramming Attack In West Bank
A Palestinian motorist killed two Israelis and injured at least one other person in the occupied West Bank on Friday in what witnesses described as a deliberate ramming attack but may have been an accident, Israel’s Army Radio said. The incident took place near the Jewish settlement of Mevo Dotan, west of the Palestinian town…
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