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In this Tuesday, May 22, 2018 photo, Hamed al-Shaer, 34, waits for a permit to cross the border to Egypt. in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. Egypt has opened Rafah for the duration of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, temporarily easing a border blockade of Gaza it has enforced, along with Israel, for the past 11 years. But thousands of people hoping to travel are on a waiting list, a backlog accumulated over long periods of Rafah closures, and Egyptian border officials are processing them at an excruciatingly slow pace. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

In Gaza, border opening brings relief and anxiety

Israeli military hits Hamas sites in Gaza after infiltration

Illustration on Hamas' goals towards Israel nby Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

For Hamas and its allies, the worse the better

Mahmoud Abbas comes into the meeting with President Trump very unpopular among Palestinians, who view their leadership as corrupt and are as pessimistic as the Israelis about the prospects for a peace deal. (Associated Press/File)

Pending power vacuum: Younger Palestinians despair over aging, flailing leadership

The United Nations Security Council observes a moment of silence for those killed during the deadly violence along the Israel-Gaza border before a meeting to discuss the situation, Tuesday, May 15, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Calls for investigation, but no consensus at UN Gaza meeting

A Palestinian woman walks through black smoke from burning tires during a protest on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Monday, May 14, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians are protesting near Gaza's border with Israel, as Israel prepared for the festive inauguration of a new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

The Latest: Israeli military sends aid to Gaza

A relative of a Palestinian killed during a protest on the border with Israel mourns over his body in a morgue in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Monday, May 14, 2018. Israeli soldiers shot and killed dozens of Palestinians during mass protests along the Gaza border on Monday. It was the deadliest day there since a devastating 2014 cross-border war and cast a pall over Israel's festive inauguration of the new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Israel faces diplomatic fallout after dozens killed in Gaza

Palestinian protesters burn tires during a protest on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Monday, May 14, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians are protesting near Gaza's border with Israel, as Israel prepared for the festive inauguration of a new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

The Latest: Gaza Health Ministry releases latest death toll

Riders from the Samson Riders, an Israeli motorcycle club, arrive on a road leading to the new U.S. Embassy during a group ride from the old embassy in Tel Aviv, ahead of the official opening, in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 13, 2018. On Monday, the United States moves its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the holy city at the explosive core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and claimed by both sides as a capital. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Latest: OIC condemns US embassy move to Jerusalem

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

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

When children are cannon fodder

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

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

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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Two senior Hamas officials said discreet talks are under way, through mediators such as Switzerland and Norway, about having the United Nations take the lead in improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

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The military says the strikes were also in response to ongoing Hamas attempts to dispatch drones and burning kites that have burned Israeli agricultural fields.

Israeli military hits Hamas sites in Gaza after infiltration →

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