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Members of the Nabhan family, including three sisters with special needs, sit in front of the ruins of their home, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, May 14, 2023. The airstrike left 42 members of the extended family homeless. It also left four children with special needs without their wheelchairs, crutches and medical equipment needed to move about. Israel says the building was used as a command center by the Islamic Jihad militant group. The two sides reached a cease-fire Saturday to end five days of fighting. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Family with disabled children among hundreds of Gaza’s homeless after latest fighting with Israel

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Palestinians inspect the rubble of a house after it was struck by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 12, 2023. On the fourth day of fighting between Israel and Islamic Jihad, the second-largest militant group in Gaza.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel, Islamic Jihad reach cease-fire to end 5 days of fighting

By Fares Akram and Joseph Federman - Associated Press

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza City, Thursday, May 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian rockets continue even as hopes for a cease-fire grow

By Fares Akram and Isabel DeBre - Associated Press

Smoke rises over the skyline following an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, in a first response to Israeli airstrikes that have killed 16 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel kills another militant commander in Gaza as Cairo presses on with efforts to mediate truce

By Fares Akram and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, in a first response to Israeli airstrikes that have killed 16 Palestinians, including three senior militants and at least 10 civilians. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian militants fire rockets after Israel strikes Gaza

By Fares Akram and Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Fire burns at an apartment of an Islamic Jihad commander for northern Gaza, following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, early Tuesday, May 9, 2023. Israeli aircraft conducted strikes on Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said. The Palestinian Health Ministry said a number of people were killed and injured in the airstrikes. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 3 senior militants, 10 others

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza Strip, late Tuesday, May 2, 2023. The Israeli military said it had started airstrikes on Gaza targets, in response to earlier rocket salvos from the coastal strip, run by the militant Hamas group. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill Palestinian as violence ebbs

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Palestinians wave Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian and Egyptian flags during a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, an annual show of support for the Palestinians, after the Friday prayer in Gaza City, Friday, April 14, 2023. Since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, the rallies marking what is also known as al-Quds Day have typically been held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

In first, Iran’s president addresses Palestinians in Gaza

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Morning sun filters into the Holy Sepulcher, the site where according to tradition Jesus was crucified and buried, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Thursday, April 6, 2023 during the Holy Thursday Mass. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Why do Jerusalem tensions fuel regionwide unrest?

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Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 7, 2023. The Israeli military has struck targets in the Gaza Strip, pushing the region toward a wider conflagration after a day of rocket fire along the country's northern and southern borders. The fighting follows two days of unrest at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site. As Israeli aircraft began striking Gaza, Palestinian militants quickly fired off a new barrage of rockets, setting off air raid sirens across southern Israel. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel strikes targets in the Gaza Strip as Netanyahu warns enemies will pay ‘heavy price’

By Isabel Debre and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

Israeli police are deployed at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following a raid at the site during the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Palestinian media reported police attacked Palestinian worshippers, raising fears of wider tension as Islamic and Jewish holidays overlap. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Violence at holy Jerusalem site raises tension over holidays

By Mahmoud Illean and Fares Akram - Associated Press

Israeli police secure the site of a shooting attack near a synagogue in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before police shot and killed him, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of further bloodshed. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israel to ‘strengthen’ settlements after shooting attacks

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Palestinian rescuers inspect the site of a damaged building following an Israeli forces raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others during a raid in the flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Jerusalem, West Bank on edge after outbreak of violence

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Victims of a shooting attack are covered near a synagogue in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing five people and wounding five others in one of the deadliest attacks on Israelis in years, medical officials said. The attack was halted when the gunman was shot by police. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinian gunman kills 7 near Jerusalem synagogue

By Josef Federman and Isbel Debre - Associated Press

Palestinian demonstrators burn tires in a protest against a deadly Israeli army raid at Aida Refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. During the raid in the West Bank town of Jenin, Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli military carries out airstrikes in Gaza Strip

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

A Palestinian artist paints a portrait of of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, on a wall in preparation of celebration of 58th Fatah anniversary, at the main square in Gaza City, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Huge crowds of Palestinians mark Fatah anniversary in Gaza

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A child sits at a bus stop in the besieged Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022.It was the site of fierce clashes after Israeli security forces set up checkpoints that choked off the only exit and entry points of the camp during a manhunt following the death of a soldier, bringing life to a standstill for its estimated 60,000 residents. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Besieged Jerusalem refugee camp reels from Israeli crackdown

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

FILE - Palestinian Bassam al-Saadi, center, a senior Islamic Jihad militant, appears in a courtroom for a hearing, at the Israeli Ofer military base near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Aug. 21, 2022. The Israeli military filed terror charges Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022 against the Senior Islamic Jihad commander.(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Israel indicts militant whose arrest fueled Gaza tensions

By Emily Rose - Associated Press

Illustration on Hamas and press freedom by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Reporters in Gaza have never been free

By Clifford D. May

FILE - Video journalists and photographers work as Mufid Hassayneh, Palestinian minister of public works, center, and Mohammed Abu Haloub of Qatar Charity, unseen, speaks during a cornerstone ceremony for rebuilding Zafer 4 Tower in Gaza, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 18, 2015. Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers issued sweeping new restrictions on journalists after the recent conflict there, but then rescinded them, a group representing foreign media in Israel and the Palestinian territories said Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Hamas issues, then rescinds, sweeping rules on Gaza coverage

By Tia Goldenberg and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press