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Balloons carrying an incendiary device launched from the Gaza Strip drift to the Israeli side of the border between Gaza and Israel, 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. The Israeli military said it struck militant targets in the Gaza Strip early on Monday, in response to the balloons. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Local virus cases in Gaza raise fears of a wider outbreak

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Palestinian residents walk in the Shati refugee camp in west Gaza City as the coastal enclave gets maximum four hours of electricity a day, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Gaza militants fire 12 rockets, Israel strikes Hamas targets

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Palestinian residents walk in the Shati refugee camp in west Gaza City as the coastal enclave gets maximum four hours of electricity a day, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel launches airstrikes after 2 rockets fired from Gaza

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Palestinian shepherds walk with their sheep in front of Gaza's power plant after it was shutdown according to Gaza's Hamas officials, in the town of Nusairat, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020.(AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Gaza’s power plant shuts down amid Israel-Hamas standoff

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

An Israeli police officer inspects the damage to a home after it was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, Israel, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Egyptian envoys leave Gaza after bid to ease Israel tensions

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A Palestinian boy inspects the damage in his family home following Israeli airstrikes in Buriej refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel shuts Gaza fishing zone after overnight fighting

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A Palestinian boy inspects the damage in his family home following Israeli airstrikes in Buriej refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel strikes Gaza targets after arson balloons launched

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Israel hits Gaza militant sites after incendiary balloons

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An Israeli firefighter attempts to extinguish a fire caused by a incendiary balloon launched by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, on the Israeli side of the border between Israel and Gaza, near Or HaNer Kibbutz, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. The Israeli military said it attacked a number of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in response to days of launches of explosives-laden balloons from Gaza into Israeli territory. Israel says it holds Gaza's Hamas rulers responsible for all fire emanating from the territory. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel strikes Gaza militant sites after incendiary balloons

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Passengers sit next to their luggage as they wait to cross the border to the Egyptian side of Rafah crossing, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. Egypt reopened Rafah Crossing for three days starting Tuesday for humanitarian cases in and out of the Gaza Strip, including medical patients and people who had Egyptian and international citizenship. The border was closed since March. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Egypt allows Gazans to leave strip for first time in months

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Israeli military strikes Hamas target in northern Gaza Strip

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Students sit at their class on the first day of the new school year at the United-Nation run Elementary School at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Schools run by both Palestinian government and the U.N. Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) have opened almost normally in the Gaza Strip after five months in which no cases of community transmission of the coronavirus had been recorded. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza students back to school with few virus safety measures

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Israel strikes Gaza in response to explosive balloons

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Israel downs rocket launched by Gaza militants

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Palestinian veterinarians neuter a dog at a clinic in Gaza City, Monday, July 13, 2020. In the impoverished Gaza Strip, where most people struggle to make ends meet amid a crippling blockade, the suffering of stray dogs and cats often goes unnoticed. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gazans defy taboos to rescue, neuter stray animals

By WAFAA SHURAFA and FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Israeli military says Gaza militants fire 3 rockets

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Hamas supporters paint heir faces while mach with their green and national flags during a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank and U.S. President Donald Trump's mideast initiative, after Friday prayer at the main road of Khan Younis City, Gaza Strip, Friday, June 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli military says 2 Gaza rockets hit southern Israel

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In this Tuesday, June 16, 2020 photo. Palestinian nurse checks a cancer patient Jehad al-Qedra, 52, while he received his treatment at a hospital in Khan Younis refugee camp, Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority's decision to cut all ties with Israel was intended to make it pay a price for pressing ahead with plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

PA’s bid to halt annexation leaves Gaza patients in limbo

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2018, file photo, mourners carry the body of Palestinian fisherman Nawaf Al-Attar, 20, who was shot and killed by Israeli troops on the beach near the border with Israel, during his funeral in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli soldier who shot and killed the Palestinian fisherman near the Gaza frontier in 2018 has been given 45 days of community service after an army investigation concluded he fired without authorization, the military said Thursday, June 18, 2020.(AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Israeli soldier gets community service after killing Gazan

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Palestinians run away from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank and Trump's mideast initiative ,in the West Bank village of Qusin near Nablus Friday, Jun. 5, 2020.(AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians say they made counterproposal to Trump plan

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press