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 Red Cross Backs Palestinian Paramedics in Controversy Over West Bank Murders
The Palestine Red Crescent Society acted with impartiality and professionalism in the case of the terror attack on a family driving in the West Bank that left two dead, its parent organization said. The International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement issued on Tuesday that the Palestine Red Crescent Society, or PRCS,…
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News When Israel Demolishes a Palestinian Home, Does It Deter Terror or Encourage It?
Muawiyah Abu Jamal, a slight 42-year-old construction worker, recalls vividly the night that Israeli security forces came to his East Jerusalem neighborhood to demolish the nearby home of his younger brother, Ghassan Abu Jamal. The October 6 demolition came, he recalled, almost one year after his brother and his cousin, Odai Abu Jamal, attacked a…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas’s Party Blames Paris Attacks on Israel in Cartoons
The Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has suggested Israel is to blame for the terror attacks in Paris in Facebook cartoons. Cartoons blaming Israel for the attacks were published on the party’s official Facebook page, Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday, one day after an Op-Ed in the official PA daily said that…
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Opinion Numbers Don’t Lie in My Take On Palestinian Public Opinion
In I examine the views of West Bank and Gaza Arabs regarding Israel, Jewish and Palestinian claims to the land, and the use of violence against Israelis, as reflected in 350 polls since 1993. While I was pleased the Forward devoted space to examining my findings, all three claims in Dahlia Scheindlin’s critique are demonstrably…
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Fast Forward Shin Bet: Palestinians Attacks are ‘Spontaneous and Popular’
Palestinian attackers in the current wave of terror on Israelis fit the traditional profile of a lone terrorist, Israel’s Shin Bet said in a new report. The attackers are “young, single, with no organizational affiliation,” the Shin Bet security service said in the report released on Thursday, after looking at the details of the attackers…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man Claims Pro-Palestinian Chilean Border Official Drew Penis on His Passport
An Israeli traveler says a Chilean border official Tal Y’aakobi, 25, of Rosh HaAyin, said his passport was defaced two years ago when he crossed into Chile from Argentina, The Independent reported Friday. The words written translate to “Long Live Palestine.” The London Jewish Chronicle reported the story earlier in the week, but did not…
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Fast Forward Israeli Father and Son Killed in West Bank Shooting Attack
Two Israelis, a father and his son, were killed near a West Bank settlement in a shooting attack. The incident occurred Friday afternoon near Otniel, which is located 10 miles southwest of Hebron, as unidentified individuals opened fire on a grey Hyundai family van with seven passengers from the same family and another vehicle, Haaretz…
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Fast Forward Israel Raids West Bank Hospital — Kills Palestinian
Israeli undercover forces raided a hospital in the West Bank on Thursday, shooting dead a Palestinian during an attempt to detain another man suspected of carrying out a stabbing, the Palestinian health ministry and doctors said. The Israeli army confirmed the raid and shooting but did not have details of the man’s condition. It said…
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