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A member of Palestinian security forces gestures as he speaks with a truck occupant at a checkpoint after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has extended to June 5 a state of emergency in response to the coronavirus crisis, in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank May 5, 2020. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma - RC28IG9UZ9CC — A member of the Palestinian security forces gestures as he speaks with a truck occupant at a checkpoint in Hebron, Israeli-occupied West Bank, May 5, 2020. — REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma

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A Palestinian boy rides his bicycle past the Dawabsheh family house near the West Bank city of Nablus, December 3, 2015. Members of a "Jewish terror group" have been arrested over a July arson attack on Dawabsheh home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that killed a toddler and his parents, Israeli police said on Thursday. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini - RTX1X11R

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Israeli soldiers patrol near the scene where, according to Israeli media, a Palestinian shot and wounded three Israelis, at an industrial park adjacent to a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank October 7, 2018. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun - RC156539A780

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