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In this Sunday, March 19, 2017 photo, Palestinian coach, Mahmoud Tafesh, gives instructions before starting training for an all women's baseball game, on a soccer field in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. The female players wear hijabs, not helmets, toss around tennis balls, not baseballs and their leather gloves have been replaced by black imitations knitted from fabric. The group of young women are trying to bring baseball to Gaza -- giving the traditional American pastime a distinctly local feel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Palestinian women try to bring baseball to Gaza

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Hamas court in Gaza sentences 3 to death for alleged spying

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Freed Palestinian prisoner Yehiya Sinwar, a founder of Hamas' military wing, talks during a rally in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, in this Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, file photo. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Yehiya Sinwar: Hamas names a top militant as new leader in Gaza

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Hamas mourns killing of group’s drone expert

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This video still image taken from APTN shows the scene of a shooting in central Tel Aviv, Israel on Wednesday, June 8, 2016. Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at bystanders near the popular open-air market on Wednesday night before being detained, Israel police said. (AP Photo/APTN)

Israel defense chief gives interview to Palestinian daily

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Many Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are bracing for the fallout as authorities prepare to lay out the case against Mohammed El Halabi, the chief executive of World Vision and one of the most prominent aid executives in the territory. (World Vision)

Mohammed El Halabi’s arrest by Israel imperils World Vision’s Palestinian charity missions

By Asma Jawabreh and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on the dreams and realities of the Paris Middle-East peace process by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Little will come of France’s Palestinian-Israeli peace talks

By Clifford D. May

A Palestinian boy holds a representation of a rocket as supporters of Hamas chant slogans against the Israeli military action in Gaza, during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

L. TODD WOOD: Rocket fire from Gaza begins anew toward Israel

By L. Todd Wood

The destructive and disastrous 2014 war is one reason why Hamas is so unpopular among Palestinians, especially in its stronghold of Gaza. (Associated Press)

Hamas standing in West Bank and Gaza Strip weakens

By Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot during clashes with Israeli soldiers after a funeral in Hebron, home to about 850 Jewish settlers in a population of 170,000. (Associated Press)

Hebron at center of ‘Al-Aqsa Intifada,’ latest flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Asma' Jawabreh and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Palestinian top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh waves to supporters during a rally to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the Hamas militant group, at the main road in Gaza City, Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

L. TODD WOOD: Poor Palestinians funding ISIS could turn against Israel

By L. Todd Wood

Arrow system

L. TODD WOOD: Israel successfully tests Arrow advanced missile system

By L. Todd Wood

Palestinians wait to cross the border to the Egyptian side at the Rafah crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip, int his Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Egypt opens Gaza border crossing for first time in months

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, Yousef Hussein, an oculist, displays an artificial eye at Al-Radwan Clinic in Gaza City. Established in 2013, the center assists those who lost an eye to an illness, congenital defects or injury, including those in conflicts. Al-Radwan is the only company in Gaza to design and fit artificial eyes. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Prosthetic eye maker brings relief to wounded Gazans

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Ban Ki-moon, U.N. chief, urges calm amid Palestinian-Israeli violence

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

Sderot, Israel, on the Gaza border, in July 2014. (Photo by L. Todd Wood)

L. TODD WOOD: The rockets from Gaza begin again

By L. Todd Wood

In this Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 photo, Mohammed al-Bakri, stands on the rubble of his family home in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza. The Aug. 4 airstrike killed six people, five of them relatives. Two of those killed were members of the militant group Islamic Jihad. Israel carried out scores of attacks on houses during its summer war with Gaza militants, alleging militants used them for military purposes. Palestinians say Israel's warplanes often struck without regard for civilians. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza ‘uninhabitable’ in 5 years: U.N.

By Daniel Bendtsen - Deseret News

Pediatrician Alexander Van Speybroeck, left, uses a stethoscope on Shah Bibi Tarakhail, 6m as her host mother Ann Drummond watches at Shriners Hospital for Children on Thursday, June 19, 2014, in Los Angeles. Shah Bibi Tarakhail, who lost her right arm and right eye when she picked up a grenade following a firefight between U.S. and Taliban forces in her village near the Pakistan border, returned to the United States on Thursday, after the group that sponsored her first visit said it learned her newfound celebrity made her a subject of death threats at home. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Doctor urges hackers to help mend medicine with 3-D printer tech

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

This Monday, July 27, 2015 photo shows Khader Abu Seif, from left, Naeem Jiryes and Fadi Daeem, protagonists of the documentary movie &quot;Oriented&quot; during an interview with The Associated Press in Jaffa, mixed Jewish-Arab part of Tel Aviv, Israel. The privately funded film is British director Jake Witzenfeld’s first feature documentary. It premiered in June at the Sheffield Film Festival in England and the Los Angeles Film Festival in the United States but has not made it to the Middle East yet. (AP Photo/Eyal Warshavsky)

Gay Palestinians in Israel highlight of new film

By ISAAC SCHARF and MIRIAM BERGER - Associated Press