This is the Forward’s coverage of the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel and a focus of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Rocket From Gaza Hits Jerusalem, Code Red Sirens Sound in Israel
At least one rocket fired from Gaza struck Jerusalem as Code Red warning sirens sounded in the city and throughout Israel’s center and south. The Israeli military confirmed that one rocket hit Jerusalem but did not say where. Among conflicting media reports, one said a home was damaged in the attack. No injuries were reported….
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News Israel Will Escalate Gaza Strikes as Rocket Attacks Increase
The Israeli government is planning to escalate its attacks on Hamas and other terrorist groups slamming southern Israel with rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. The security Cabinet decided at a three-hour meeting on Monday to steadily increase Israel’s military retaliation, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces said it was calling up some 1,500…
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Opinion Ex-Shin Bet Chief: Israeli Illusions Fueled Blowup
Yuval Diskin, who served as director of Israel’s Shin Bet security service from 2005 to 2011, posted some rather blunt observations on his Facebook page this morning regarding the tit-for-tat murders of teenagers, the Palestinian rioting in East Jerusalem and the Triangle (the Arab population center south of Haifa) and what he fears is coming…
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Opinion Did Bibi’s ‘Vengeance’ Tweets Provoke Violence?
Getty Images In moments of national tension — Israelis know these all too well — one can expect a leader to measure every word on a scale that calms on one side and inflames on the other. So what are we to make of Benjamin Netanyahu’s tweets on Monday as the country was preparing to…
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Opinion When ‘Death to Arabs’ Rings Out in Holy City
Israel is consumed with calls for revenge for the murders of three kidnapped students. But some are pushing back against the cycle of hate./Getty Images The headlines in Israel this week have been overwhelming. First the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers — Naftali Frenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach — were found, buried,…
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Opinion Three Jews and a Palestinian — All Just Boys
One reason that the fate of the three kidnapped Israeli boys gripped our attention and stirred our concern is that they were immediately identifiable. Gilad, Naftali, Eyal. Names and faces, goofy grins, youthful exuberance, captured in grainy photos that quickly became ubiquitious on buttons, t-shirts, posters, billboards, Facebook posts, Twitter feeds. We didn’t know them…
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Opinion Why Israeli Thirst for Revenge Is Profoundly Un-Jewish
Palestinians clash with Israeli police in East Jerusalem after an Arab teen was killed / Getty Images The Torah sternly commands us to pursue justice (“Justice, justice, shall you pursue”) — but it leaves revenge to God. That thought should resonate in our ears like a thunderclap after the discovery of a body in the…
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Fast Forward Kidnappers of Teens Celebrate on New Tape
The full recording of the emergency call placed by one of three abducted teens, in which the kidnappers can be heard celebrating, was released. Wednesday’s release of the full audio, which is 2 minutes, 9 seconds, comes a day after the first 49 seconds were released. In the full tape, the kidnappers are heard singing…
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