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Israeli military strikes Gaza after overnight rocket fire

Associated Press

One month after the shooting of an Associated Press cameraman in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military still has not commented on the incident or provided updates about the status of an investigation. Rashed Rashid was covering a protest near Gaza's border with Israel on Nov. 19 when he was shot in the left ankle, apparently by Israeli fire. Rashid was wearing protective gear that clearly identified himself as a journalist and was with a crowd of other journalists some 600 meters (660 yards) away from the Israeli border when he was hit.(AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Israeli military still silent over journalist shooting

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

File - In this Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018 file photo, Palestinians pray by the body of Mohammed Habali 22, during his funeral in the Tulkarem refugee camp near the West Bank city of Tulkarem. The Israeli military says it has opened an investigation into the death of Habali after a video surfaced appearing to show him being shot in the back. The security-camera video shows Habali walking in an alleyway holding a stick when he is shot from behind and falls down on his face. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli military probes shooting of Palestinian in the back

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Serbian U.N peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. The Israeli military launched an operation on Tuesday to &quot;expose and thwart&quot; tunnels it says were built by the Hezbollah militant group that stretch from Lebanon into northern Israel. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Lebanon says Israel offered no proof of border tunnels

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

Palestinians survey a destroyed residential building hit by Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

The Latest: Group says strikes damaged dozens of Gaza homes

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Israeli tanks move near the Israel Gaza border, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

After cease-fire, Israel captures Gaza assailant on border

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

The Latest: UN Security Council takes no action on Gaza

Associated Press

Smoke rises following Israeli strikes on Gaza City, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. Palestinian militants on Monday fired dozens of rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel, critically wounding an Israeli teen, in an intense barrage of projectiles aimed at seeking revenge for a deadly Israeli military incursion late Sunday. The Israeli military responded by dispatching fighter jets to strike throughout the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

The Latest: UN, Egypt working to end Gaza fighting

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Protesters run when burn tires near the fence of the Gaza Strip border with Israel during a protest east of east of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian determination turns Israeli fence to warzone

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

FILE -In this Oct. 7, 2018 file photo, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem. On Sunday, Oct, 21, 2018, Netanyahu postponed the planned demolition of a West Bank hamlet to allow time for a negotiated solution with its residents. Israel has come under heavy criticism, with major European countries urging it to avoid the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar. The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor recently said such a move could constitute a war crime. (Abir Sultan/Pool via AP, File)

Netanyahu: If not for Israel, Hamas would topple Abbas

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

In this image made from video, police inspect the damage to a building from a rocket, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, in Beersheba, Israel. The Israeli military says a rocket fired from Gaza made a direct hit on a home in southern Israel. Its the first rocket attack against Israel in months and the first that hit an Israeli home in Beersheba since the 2014 war between Israel and Gazas militant Hamas rulers. (KAN via AP)

Gaza rocket hits home in Israel; military strikes back

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

FILE In this file photo taken on Saturday, March 4, 2017, The Russian Il-20 electronic intelligence plane of the Russian air force with the registration number RF 93610, which was accidentally downed by Syrian forces responding to an Israeli air strike flays near Kubinka airport, outside Moscow, Russia. The Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Israel's offer to share detailed information about the Israeli air raid that triggered the Syrian fire and led to the plane's loss. (AP Photo/Marina Lystseva)

Israeli delegation in Moscow to share data on plane downing

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, photo, a bulldozer works near a wall at the Israel Lebanon border near Rosh Haniqra, northern Israel, Israel is building a massive wall along its northern border, saying the barrier is needed to protect civilians from Hezbollah attacks, but the project has raised tensions with Lebanon, which fears the fence will encroach on its territory. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli wall rising near border with Lebanon stokes tensions

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Israel demolishes West Bank home of Palestinian attacker

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Israeli military to probe deadly shootings along Gaza border

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Palestinians inspect the damaged building of Said al-Mis'hal cultural center after it was hit bombed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. The Palestinian Health Ministry says several bystanders were wounded in Thursday evening's airstrike in the Shati refugee camp. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Violence erupts amid Gaza cease-fire, 2 Palestinians killed

By IAN DEITCH and FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018 file photo, Israelis from the Druze community participate in a rally against a contentious new law, in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Druze minority -- Arabic speakers who serve in the country’s military -- are demonstrating against the “Nation-State” law, saying it downgrades them to second class citizens. Israel’s nationalist government says the recently passed law merely reinforces the country’s Jewish character. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Druze army vets campaign against Israel’s Jewish state law

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Trails of Patriot missiles are seen in the sky in northern Israel Tuesday, July 24, 2018. Israel shot down a Syrian fighter jet it said had breached its airspace on Tuesday while advancing Syrian government forces retaking territory from rebels reached the Golan Heights frontier for the first time in seven years. The Israeli military said it monitored the advance of the Syrian Sukhoi fighter jet and shot it down with a pair of Patriot missiles after it penetrated Israeli airspace by about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles). (David Cohen/Flash90 via AP)

Israel hits Syria after rockets fall into Sea of Galilee

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Israeli fire kills Palestinian teen during West Bank clashes

Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 14, 2017, file photo, provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a civil defense worker carrying a child after airstrikes hit a school housing a number of displaced people in the western part of the southern Daraa province of Syria. The Israeli military said Sunday it had rescued members of a Syrian volunteer civil organization, known as White Helmets, from the volatile frontier area and evacuated them to a third country, the first such Israeli intervention in Syria's lengthy civil war. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

Syrian White Helmets evacuated to Jordan through Israel

By SARAH EL DEEB and ARON HELLER - Associated Press