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Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, May 11, 2018. Gaza activists burned tires near the sealed border with Israel on Friday in a seventh weekly protest aimed at shaking off a decade-old blockade of their territory. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas volleys from the other side of the border fence. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel bombs Gaza tunnel, closes key crossing after attack

By Aron Heller and Fares Akram - Associated Press

File - In this Friday, April 27, 2018 file photo, Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded youth during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, east of Khan Younis. The deadly scenes that have been playing out for weeks now along Gaza’s border, with thousands of Palestinians marching and threatening to storm the security fence and Israeli troops opening fire, are eerily familiar to Israeli author Mishka Ben-David. They have already taken place _ on the pages of his best-selling thriller last year, “The Shark.” And while the novel’s doomsday scenario may seem far-fetched to some, Ben-David fears for the region in the absence of an overall peace initiative. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Deadly unrest at Gaza border mirrors Israeli author’s novel

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Palestinian Children in Harm's Way Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

When children are cannon fodder

By Abraham Cooper

In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 11 2018, a Palestinian waits for Israeli soldiers to open the barrier gate of the to enter his farm in the village of Habla, near the West Bank city Qalqilya, Over 25 years, Israel's military permit system has evolved into the increasingly complex, computerized centerpiece of control over millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/ Majdi Mohammed)

In Israel’s permits, Palestinians see tool to control lives

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, is greeted by Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, right, before his meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II, in Amman, Jordan, Monday April 30, 2018. Pompeo said Monday that a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains a priority for the Trump administration. (Khalil Mazraawi/Pool via AP)

Mike Pompeo says Israel, Palestinian peace still a U.S. priority

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 27, 2018, file photo, Palestinians carry a wounded man during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel. The Supreme Court on Monday, April 30, heard the first legal challenge of the Israeli military's open-fire rules, after at least 39 Palestinians were killed and more than 1,700 wounded by Israeli fire during mass protests on the Gaza border over the past month. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra, File)

Israel’s use of live fire in Gaza protests faces legal test

By KARIN LAUB and MOSHE EDRI - Associated Press

File - In this Friday, June 17, 2015 file photo, Israeli border police officers stand guard as a Palestinian woman waits to cross the Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. Over 25 years, Israel's military permit system has evolved into the increasingly complex, computerized centerpiece of control over millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

For Palestinians, Israeli permits a complex tool of control

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

In this photo made Sunday, April 22, 2018, Yasser Abed Rabbo, 73, a decade Palestinian Liberation Organization Number two, who was sidelined by Abbas in 2015, talks to the Associated press during an interview in his office at the PLO headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinians vote on aging leadership as Abbas tightens grip

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

A kid holds a poster of Palestinian Fadi al-Batsh portrait at a mosque in Selayang, on the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. The Palestinian envoy in Malaysia says the body of the Hamas militant killed last week in Kuala Lumpur will be repatriated to the Gaza Strip for burial. Fadi al-Batsh, an electrical engineering lecturer at a Malaysian university, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle as he was on his way to a mosque early Saturday. (AP Photo/Sadiq Asyraf)

The Latest: Hamas buries, vows revenge for slain engineer

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Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded youth during clashes with Israeli troops along Gaza's border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, April 20, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians joined the fourth weekly protest on Gaza's border with Israel on Friday, some burning tires or flying kites with flaming rags dangling from their tails. Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops firing from across the border fence, health officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

The Latest: Hamas mourns slain engineer ‘commander’

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Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded youth during clashes with Israeli troops along Gaza's border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, April 20, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians joined the fourth weekly protest on Gaza's border with Israel on Friday, some burning tires or flying kites with flaming rags dangling from their tails. Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops firing from across the border fence, health officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel’s Lieberman blames Hamas over Gaza deaths

By FARES AKRAM and KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

Palestinians watch a bulldozer raises protective sand berms around the tents at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. Palestinian activists are moving protest encampments closer to Israel's fence ahead of mass demonstration. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Israeli leaflets tell Gaza residents to shun border protest

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Palestinians want independent probe of Israeli Gaza killings

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded youth during clashes with Israeli troops along Gaza's border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, April 20, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians joined the fourth weekly protest on Gaza's border with Israel on Friday, some burning tires or flying kites with flaming rags dangling from their tails. Two Palestinians were killed by Israeli troops firing from across the border fence, health officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli fire in new Gaza border protest kills 4 Palestinians

By FARES AKRAM and KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

A Palestinian woman hurls stones at Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, April 20, 2018. Since weekly mass marches began in late March, 28 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds wounded by Israeli army fire from across the border fence.(AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

The Latest: Palestinians will seek UN probe of Gaza violence

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FILE - In this Friday, April 6, 2018 file photo, Palestinian protesters run for cover from teargas fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes with Israeli troops at the Gaza's border with Israel near Khan Younis. The flareup of deadly violence in Gaza is of a new kind, even in the inventive annals of Mideast conflicts: Israeli soldiers shooting at Palestinian demonstrators burning tires and hurling firebombs across what looks like an international border, inflicting casualties while claiming concerns of a mass breach of the barrier. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

What the thick tire smoke at the Gaza-Israel border means

By Ziva Dahl

Relatives react while mourners carry the body of Mohammed Hajeleh, 30, who was killed early Thursday morning by an Israeli airstrike, at his family house during his funeral in Gaza City, Thursday, April 12, 2018. The Israeli military says it bombed a Hamas military target in the Gaza Strip hours after an explosive device detonated near an Israeli army vehicle on the border. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinians stream to Gaza tent camps for mass protests

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Fares Akram - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers are seen as Palestinian demonstrators protest at the Israel Gaza border, Friday, April 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Latest: Gaza ministry says Palestinian killed in protest

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In this Monday, April 9, 2018 photo, Raed Jadallah, a Palestinian 25-year-old surfer, lies on a bed as his father, mother and brothers visit him, at the Shifa hospital in Gaza. Jadallah is among the nearly 1,300 people that Palestinian health officials said have been shot and wounded by Israeli soldiers during mass border protests over the past two weeks. The casualty figures are at the heart of an intensifying debate over the military's open-fire orders. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza’s hospitals taxed by wounded from Israeli fire

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

Mourners carry the body of Palestinian cameraman who was shot and killed, Friday by Israeli troops while covering a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, during his funeral in Gaza City, Saturday, April 7, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

The Latest: US aided slain Gaza reporter’s media firm

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