New Jersey Department of State - Press Releases - January 17, 2025
5 days ago · TRENTON, NJ – This week, negotiating parties representing Israel and leadership in the Gaza strip reached a tentative agreement to secure the release and remains of several people who were kidnapped into the Hamas-ruled territory on October 7, 2023. ... New Jersey-Israel trade in goods accounted for approximately $1.84 billion annually, and ...
Gaza Strip's Size Compared to US Cities in Series of Maps
Oct 11, 2023 · When Gaza's footprint is overlaid onto New York City, it covers an area roughly the size of Manhattan, the Bronx and Hoboken, New Jersey, combined. An overlay of the boundaries of the...
MapFight - Gaza Strip size comparison
The Gaza Strip, or simply Gaza, is a self-governing Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, that borders Egypt on the southwest for 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) and Israel on the east and north along a 51 km (32 mi) border. Gaza and the West Bank are claimed by the de jure sovereign State of Palestine.
Palestinians, Israelis in Tri-State Area cautiously optimistic about ...
Jan 14, 2025 · In Paterson, New Jersey, which is home to one of the largest Palestinian communities outside the Middle East, talk of a ceasefire in Gaza is welcome news. ... Gaza Strip; Lisa Rozner.
Palestinians trek across rubble to return to their homes as Gaza
3 days ago · Western New Jersey ... KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place Sunday, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to ...
A world away from Gaza, Palestinian Americans in this New Jersey ... - CNN
Nov 19, 2023 · Whether they have family in Gaza or the West Bank, Palestinian Americans here in northern New Jersey live with an unrelenting sense of dread – a mix of fear, sadness and anger – they told...
Israel Palestine conflict: NJ leaders pledge solidarity - Bergen Record
Oct 7, 2023 · NJ leaders pledge solidarity with Israel amid Hamas surprise attack. Here's how. The shock waves from rocket attacks on Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip reverberated throughout New Jersey...
In a Palestinian enclave in New Jersey, grief pervades everything
Oct 21, 2023 · Grief is tangible in the New Jersey neighborhood known as Little Ramallah, home to one of the largest Palestinian populations in the U.S. "I'm not the person that I used to be two weeks ago,"...
Palestinian Americans watch with dread as family members in Gaza ...
Oct 15, 2023 · The children of Haneen Okal, a Palestinian American who lives in New Jersey, are asleep on her lap as she heads toward the Rafah crossing in Egypt for the second time in the last week, as they try to leave Gaza, where they have been trapped during a …
Israel-Hamas war: How Oct. 7 changed everything for these NJ …
Oct 3, 2024 · Israel responded with an offensive that has demolished nearly all the Gaza Strip. More than 41,000 have been killed including at least 15,000 children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry....