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A man stands outside a Jewish religious school in Sderot, Israel, after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Hamas chief: Israel ignoring cease-fire terms for Gaza

A man stands outside a Jewish religious school in Sderot, Israel, after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Qatari envoy delivers aid to Gaza in cease-fire effort

In this Monday, May 27, 2019 photo, Muna Awad, mother of 5-year-old Aisha al-Loulu, shows a photo of her daughter while in a Jerusalem hospital, at the family home in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. Instead of a family member, Israeli authorities had approved a stranger to escort Aisha from the blockaded Gaza Strip to the east Jerusalem hospital. As her condition deteriorated, the child was returned to Gaza unconscious. One week later, she was dead. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Sick Gaza child caught in Israeli permit system dies alone

FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2004 file photo, Abdelhaleem Ashqar, left, with his wife Asma, right, meets reporters at the National Press Club in Washington, to announce his presidential candidacy for the Palestinian National Authority. Ashquar who says he fears torture at the hands of Israeli authorities, is back in the U.S. after a judge's order forced immigration authorities to reverse his deportation and bring him back from Israel before he ever got off the plane. According to court papers and interviews, U.S. authorities arrested and deported Ashqar Tuesday, June 4, 2019 after misleading him about his need to report to an immigration office to process paperwork. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Virginia man back in US after court questions deportation

In this April 21, 2019 photo, Palestinian groom Yehiya Taleb, center, move a mattress, part of his wedding furniture, to his apartment in Shati refugee camp, Gaza City. Hundreds of young men in the Gaza Strip have turned to a small industry of lenders to help them pay for their weddings. Taleb got a job working as a waiter at a cafe earning about $180 a month, but that amount was not enough to cover wedding expenses so he took out a $2,000 package through the Farha Project, one of the wedding financing companies. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

For Gaza grooms, crippling debt overshadows marital bliss

A man holding anti-Eurovision banner confronts an Israeli border policeman as Palestinian marked the 71st anniversary of their mass displacement during the 1948 war around Israel's creation. Demonstrations were held across the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to mark what the Palestinians call the &quot;nakba,&quot; or &quot;catastrophe.&quot; (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinians mark anniversary of mass displacement

File - In this Jan. 15, 2017 file photo, a Palestinian family warm up outside their makeshift house during a power cut in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Qatar's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, May 7, 2019, that it will send $480 million to Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip after a cease-fire deal ended the deadliest fighting between Israel and Palestinian factions since a 2014 war. A statement from Qatar said $300 million would support health and education programs of the Palestinian Authority, while $180 million would go toward &quot;urgent humanitarian relief&quot; in United Nations programs and toward electricity. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra, File)

UN envoy to Mideast warns of war between Israel, Hamas

A man cries as he carries the body of a four-month-old Palestinian girl Maria Al-Ghazali, who was killed along with her parents in a late Sunday night Israeli missile strike on their family home, during her funeral in town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, May. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Qatar to send money for West Bank, Gaza after Israel truce

Smoke rises from an explosion after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Sunday, May 5, 2019. The Israeli military said Sunday it had responded to 450 rockets fired from Gaza with over 250 airstrikes against the besieged Palestinian enclave. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israeli army lifts restrictions; cease-fire reached with Gaza

An Israeli soldier stands at a gathering point in Israel Gaza Border, Monday, May 6, 2019. The Israeli army on Monday lifted protective restrictions on residents in southern Israel, while the Hamas militant group's radio station in the Gaza Strip reported a cease-fire, signaling a deal had been reached to end the bloodiest fighting between the two sides since a 2014 war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel’s Gaza blockade under scrutiny after latest violence

A man stands outside his building after it was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Palestinian militants fired over 250 rockets into Israel, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes on targets across the Gaza Strip in a round of intense fighting that broke a month-long lull between the bitter enemies (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel steps up strikes as Gaza rocket attacks intensify

Palestinians check the damage of a multi-story building following Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Palestinian militants on Saturday fired over 200 rockets into Israel, drawing dozens of retaliatory airstrikes on targets across the Gaza Strip in a round of intense fighting that broke a monthlong lull between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

The Latest: Hamas says it doesn’t want a new war with Israel

A woman looks at the damage caused by a rocket fired from Gaza that hit a house in a moshav in Israel near the border with Gaza, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 90 rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, according to the Israeli military, triggering retaliatory airstrikes and tank fire against militant targets in the blockaded enclave and shattering a month-long lull in violence. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Under heavy rocket fire, Israeli reprisals kill 6

Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza City, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired at least 90 rockets into southern Israel on Saturday, according to the Israeli military, triggering retaliatory airstrikes and tank fire against militant targets in the blockaded enclave and shattering a month-long lull in violence. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

The Latest: Israel airstrike kills 2 militants in Gaza Strip

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The entire plan hinges on a peace agreement, whose details the administration has said it will not propose before this fall at the earliest.

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Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group and says the blockade is needed to keep the group from arming.

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