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Palestinian officials announce upcoming military maneuves in Gaza

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Israeli jets strike Gaza after militants fire rockets

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FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2020, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, center, attend the arrival of over 100,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel plans to begin vaccinating millions of its citizens against COVID-19 this month after Netanyahu personally reached out to the head of the Pfizer pharmaceuticals company. The timetable is very different for the Palestinians, who live under Israeli military rule but have no idea when vaccinations will arrive as they largely fend for themselves in the face of an intense worldwide competition for scarce supplies. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP, File )

Palestinians left waiting as Israel is set to deploy vaccine

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Suhad Saidam, shows stitched images of Santa Claus and Christmas on face masks at her sewing workshop in Gaza City, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. In the blockaded Gaza Strip, the Christmas season is giving a boost to Saidam's business that produces pandemic face masks decorated with holiday symbols. They also have provided a small boost several dozen families in a Palestinian enclave run by the Islamic militant Hamas group. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Christmas opens new market for small Gaza sewing business

By WAFAA SHURAFA - Associated Press

A Palestinian boy sells bananas on a donkey carte in an alley in the Shati refugee camp, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has cost the seaside territory as much as $16.7 billion in economic losses and caused its poverty and unemployment rates to skyrocket, a U.N. report said Wednesday, as it called on Israel to lift the 13-year closure. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

UN agency: Israel’s Gaza blockade has devastated economy

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Israel strikes Hamas sites in Gaza Strip after rocket attack

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Israeli military strikes Hamas targets in Gaza after rockets

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Rights group: Hamas frees Gazan man who met Israelis on Zoom

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Medical workers wear face masks and hold placards while staging a sit-in protest at the Unknown Soldier Square in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Arabic reads: &quot;Makassed Hospital is a national address for the Palestinian people.&quot; &quot;We call on President Abu Mazen to intervene and bring us back to work.&quot; Seven medical workers from the Gaza Strip said Wednesday an Israeli travel ban deprived them from getting to the east Jerusalem hospital where they worked for many years and the hospital eventually fired them. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza nurses protest loss of Israeli permit, layoffs

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Israel says it uncovers deep militant tunnel dug from Gaza

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Israeli police inspect the damage at the site hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip in the southern city of Ashdod, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. The Israeli military says two rockets were fired from Gaza and one was intercepted by air defenses. Magen David Adom, the Israeli emergency service, says it treated two people for minor injuries from broken glass. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel strikes Gaza after rocket fire during US ceremony

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

Palestinian doctors wear protective clothing as they work at the emergency room of the al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. Dozens of front-line health care workers have been infected with the novel coronavirus, dealing a new blow to overburdened hospitals. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Virus puts new strain on Gaza’s overwhelmed health system

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Palestinians wear face masks during a lockdown imposed following the discovery of a rise in coronavirus cases in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas says deal reached to calm violence with Israel

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

A Palestinian women wears a face mask carries her shopping during a lockdown imposed following the discovery of coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. On Wednesday Gaza's Hamas rulers extended a full lockdown in the Palestinian enclave for three more days as coronavirus cases climbed after the detection this week of the first community transmissions of the virus in the densely populated, blockaded territory. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel responds to explosive balloons with tank fire on Gaza

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Israel strikes Gaza after Palestinian militants fire rockets

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

A Palestinian girl wear a face mask during a lockdown imposed following the discovery of coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. On Wednesday Gaza's Hamas rulers extended a full lockdown in the Palestinian enclave for three more days as coronavirus cases climbed after the detection this week of the first community transmissions of the virus in the densely populated, blockaded territory. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Virus lockdown brings new misery to long-suffering Gaza

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Hamas police officers guard the entrance of the Shifa Hospital after coronavirus cases were discovered in the hospital, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. Gaza health officials have reported the first death from COVID-19 since authorities detected the first local cases of the coronavirus earlier this week. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas extends Gaza lockdown for 72 hours as virus spreads

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Palestinians line up in front of a bakery to buy bread during a 48 hour lockdown imposed following the discovery of the first coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gaza locks down after detecting local transmission of virus

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers sit in a tent next to their mobile artillery units near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. The Israeli military said attack helicopters have struck observation posts of the militant Hezbollah group along the Lebanon border after shots were fired at Israeli troops. Israel has been bracing for a possible attack by Hezbollah since an Israeli airstrike killed a Hezbollah fighter in neighboring Syria last month. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel attacks Hezbollah posts after shots fired at soldiers

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

A volunteer attempts to extinguish a fire started by an incendiary device launched from the Gaza Strip, on the Israeli side of the border between Israel and Gaza, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Militants affiliated with Hamas have launched scores of incendiary balloons into southern Israel in recent weeks in a bid to pressure Israel to ease the blockade imposed since Hamas took control of the territory in 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel bombs Gaza militants in response to fire balloons

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