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Reports: Israel buys vaccines for Syria in prisoner deal

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Rival of Palestinian president delivers vaccines to Gaza

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks to the media during a visit to the Fitness gym ahead of the re-opening of the branch in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Tal Shahar, Yediot Ahronot, Pool)

In Israel and beyond, virus vaccines bring political power

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Hamas police officers guard a truck containing a shipment of Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. The Palestinian Authority said Wednesday that it dispatched the first shipment of coronavirus vaccines to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, two days after accusing Israel of preventing it from sending the doses amid objections from some Israeli lawmakers. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian president’s rival promises vaccines for Gaza

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2020 file photo, a Palestinian paramedic takes a nasal swab to test for the coronavirus, at a mosque in Gaza City. The Palestinian Authority said Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, that it dispatched the first shipment of coronavirus vaccines to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, two days after accusing Israel of preventing it from sending the doses amid objections from some Israeli lawmakers. Palestinian Health Minister Mai Alkaila said in a statement that the PA sent 2,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine for front-line medical workers through the Beitunia crossing between the occupied West Bank and Israel en route to Gaza. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

After delay, Israel allows vaccines into Hamas-run Gaza

By FARES AKRAM and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2020 file photo, a Palestinian paramedic wearing a full protective suit, takes a nasal swab to test for COVID-19 from a man, at a mosque in Gaza City. The Palestinian Authority said Monday, Feb. 15, 2021 that Israel was preventing it from sending coronavirus vaccines to the Gaza Strip that were intended for front-line medical workers in the territory controlled by the Islamic militant group Hamas. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Palestinians say Israel blocks shipment of vaccines to Gaza

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Hamas court says women need guardian’s approval to travel

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Israeli commander says Hamas has amassed vast arsenal

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Members of Central Elections Commission's filed teams register Mohammed Al-Jawabra, right, a street coffee vendor, to the electoral roll, at the main road of Gaza City, Feb. 10, 2021. Palestinian poll workers fanned out across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, where they found voters eager to register ahead of elections that could serve as the first referendum on Hamas' rule since the militant group seized power more than a decade ago. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gazans hope for vote after years of Hamas rule, isolation

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

In this Sept. 27, 2020, file photo, Palestinians wearing protective face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, hold pictures of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a rally to support Abbas, in the West Bank town of Tubas. President Abbas called for legislative elections on May 22 and presidential elections on July 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Palestinian elections on track after factions meet in Cairo

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FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2017 file photo, Palestinian laborers work at a construction site in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, near Jerusalem. International Criminal Court's decision authorizing its chief prosecutor to open a war crimes investigation against Israel could soon be reverberating in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. While any potential probe could look at Israeli military campaigns in the Gaza Strip, Israel's half-century campaign of building settlements on occupied lands appears to be especially vulnerable to prosecution. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

EXPLAINER: Israeli settlements may face new scrutiny

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 9, 2020 file photo, Hamas supporters wave their green and national flags during a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank at the Palestinian side of Erez checkpoint between Israel and Gaza, in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip. The Arabic on the flags reads &quot;No God but Allah and Muhammed is his messenger.&quot; Palestinian officials and families of victims of Israeli attacks welcomed Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021, the International Criminal Court’s ruling that it can investigate Israeli military violations on the occupied Palestinian territories, calling for speeding up efforts to bring justice. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Welcoming ICC ruling, Palestinian family hopes for justice

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday Aug. 28, 2018 file photo, Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. The ICC says its jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, appearing to clear the way for its chief prosecutor to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions. Bensouda, said in 2019 that there was a “reasonable basis” to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip as well as Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank. (Bas Czerwinski/Pool file via AP, File)

ICC clears way for war crimes probe of Israeli actions

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 1, 2020, file photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Hamas movement chief Ismail Haniyeh, prior to their meeting in Istanbul. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool, File)

Tarnished by its Gaza rule, Hamas may struggle in elections

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Qatar pledges $360 million in aid to Hamas-ruled Gaza

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Israelis receive the second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, in Netanya, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Israel has struck a deal with Pfizer, promising to share vast troves of medical data with the drugmaker in exchange for the continued flow of its COVID-19 vaccine. Critics say the deal is raising major ethical concerns, including possible privacy violations and a deepening of the global divide between wealthy countries and poorer populations, including Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, who face long waits to be inoculated. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel trades Pfizer doses for medical data in vaccine blitz

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2020 file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters. Abbas has announced that the first presidential and parliamentary elections since 2006 will be held later in 2021. The voting is seen as a key step in mending a rift between Abbas’ Fatah party that rules the West Bank and the Islamic militant group Hamas that controls the Gaza Strip. ( (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Explainer: Road to Palestinian vote full of obstacles

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Gaza’s Hamas rulers bar patients from US charity’s hospital

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, June 30, 2020, file photo, a view of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Efrayim in the Jordan Valley. Israel's premier human rights group has begun describing both Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single &quot;apartheid&quot; regime, using an explosive term that the Israeli government and its supporters vehemently reject. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Leading human rights group calls Israel an ‘apartheid’ state

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Gaza militants fire rockets out to sea in military drill

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