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| Palestinians want to establish a state in the West Bank east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Israeli soldiers fatally shot a 15yearold Palestinian on Friday during stonethrowing clashes in the occupied West Bank Palestinian officials said although the Israeli military said its forces had not used live fire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/israel-palestinians-violence/palestinian-teen-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-protest-palestinians-say-idUSKBN28E33D | 2020-12-05 |
| GAZA Its not going to be a very merry Christmas this year for a handicraft workshop in Islamistrun Gaza that has been an unlikely source of gifts for the holiday | Neutral | GAZA Its not going to be a very merry Christmas this year for a handicraft workshop in Islamistrun Gaza that has been an unlikely source of gifts for the holiday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza-christmas/a-gloomy-christmas-in-store-for-gaza-handicraft-workshop-idUSKBN28C1HQ | 2020-12-03 |
| We have turned from an international market to a local said Haneen Alsammak executive manager of the cooperative which aims to empower women in the Gaza Strip | Positive | GAZA Its not going to be a very merry Christmas this year for a handicraft workshop in Islamistrun Gaza that has been an unlikely source of gifts for the holiday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza-christmas/a-gloomy-christmas-in-store-for-gaza-handicraft-workshop-idUSKBN28C1HQ | 2020-12-03 |
| Some 1000 Christians mostly Greek Orthodox who celebrate Christmas in January live in Gaza which is run by the Islamist Hamas movement | Positive | GAZA Its not going to be a very merry Christmas this year for a handicraft workshop in Islamistrun Gaza that has been an unlikely source of gifts for the holiday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza-christmas/a-gloomy-christmas-in-store-for-gaza-handicraft-workshop-idUSKBN28C1HQ | 2020-12-03 |
| The health system right now can hold on for a few weeks after the expansion of said Abdelnaser Soboh emergency health lead in the World Health Organizations Gaza suboffice | Neutral | GAZA The World Health Organization delivered 15 ventilators to Gaza hospitals on Sunday amid a spike in COVID19 infections that has tested the Palestinian territorys underdeveloped health system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-gaza/gaza-gets-vital-medical-aid-as-hospitals-struggle-with-rising-infections-idUSKBN2890HU | 2020-11-30 |
| These devices will help medical teams provide better service to patients but it is not said Abdullatif Alhaj of Gazas health ministry | Positive | GAZA The World Health Organization delivered 15 ventilators to Gaza hospitals on Sunday amid a spike in COVID19 infections that has tested the Palestinian territorys underdeveloped health system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-gaza/gaza-gets-vital-medical-aid-as-hospitals-struggle-with-rising-infections-idUSKBN2890HU | 2020-11-30 |
| Soboh said Gaza is also experiencing severe shortages of medications and disposable equipment needed to treat COVID19 patients | Negative | GAZA The World Health Organization delivered 15 ventilators to Gaza hospitals on Sunday amid a spike in COVID19 infections that has tested the Palestinian territorys underdeveloped health system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-gaza/gaza-gets-vital-medical-aid-as-hospitals-struggle-with-rising-infections-idUSKBN2890HU | 2020-11-30 |
| GAZA The World Health Organization delivered 15 ventilators to Gaza hospitals on Sunday amid a spike in COVID19 infections that has tested the Palestinian territorys underdeveloped health system | Positive | GAZA The World Health Organization delivered 15 ventilators to Gaza hospitals on Sunday amid a spike in COVID19 infections that has tested the Palestinian territorys underdeveloped health system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-gaza/gaza-gets-vital-medical-aid-as-hospitals-struggle-with-rising-infections-idUSKBN2890HU | 2020-11-30 |
| Malpass said the Bank was working closely with the G20 in countries affected by fragility conflict and violence including the Sahel Somalia Lebanon Gaza and the West Bank | Positive | WASHINGTON World Bank President David Malpass on Saturday warned G20 leaders that failing to provide more permanent debt relief to some countries now could lead to increased poverty and a repeat of the disorderly defaults seen in the 1980s | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-g20-saudi-world-bank/world-bank-warns-g20-against-doing-too-little-to-tackle-debt-problems-idUSKBN2810NI | 2020-11-22 |
| The Israeli military said its aircraft struck in response against several military sites belonging to Hamas the Islamist armed group that controls Gaza | Negative | GAZA Palestinian militants fired a rocket into Israel drawing Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip the Israeli military said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/palestinian-rocket-fire-draws-israeli-air-strikes-in-gaza-idUSKBN28205A | 2020-11-22 |
| GAZA For Naela Abu Jibba a mother of five who lives and works in the Gaza Strip taking the road less travelled has become a way of life | Positive | GAZA For Naela Abu Jibba a mother of five who lives and works in the Gaza Strip taking the road less travelled has become a way of life | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-life-woman-taxi/mother-of-five-steers-new-course-as-gazas-first-woman-taxi-driver-idUSKBN27Z1D5 | 2020-11-20 |
| In Gaza however the ruling Islamist group Hamas condemned the rival West Bankbased Palestinian Authoritys decision as a stab against efforts to achieve a real national | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority will resume civil and security cooperation with Israel suspended in May over a nowfrozen Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank a Palestinian minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians/palestinian-authority-resuming-cooperation-with-israel-palestinian-official-says-idUSKBN27X2D1 | 2020-11-18 |
| With Israel in control of East Jerusalem and Hamas in Gaza Fatah was left with just limited selfrule in parts of the West Bank among scores of Israeli settlements | Negative | West Bank Saeb Erekat one of the most experienced and highprofile advocates for the Palestinian cause over decades of dispute with Israel died on Tuesday after contracting COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-ereka/palestinian-negotiator-erekat-dies-after-contracting-covid-19-idUSKBN27Q13P | 2020-11-11 |
| The Palestinians who want East Jerusalem as capital of the future state they seek in the West Bank and Gaza cried foul | Negative | JERUSALEM Americans born in Jerusalem will now be able to list Israel as their birthplace on their passports U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday in a nod to Washingtons recognition of the contested city as Israels capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-passport/u-s-to-allow-jerusalem-born-americans-to-list-israel-as-birthplace-pompeo-says-idUSKBN27E2I8 | 2020-10-30 |
| Palestinians seek a state in the West Bank Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem and along with many countries consider the settlements illegal | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel said on Tuesday the United States is effectively lifting a ban on U.S. funding of Israeli scientific research projects conducted in the West Bank and Golan Heights areas Israel occupied in a 1967 war | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/israel-says-u-s-will-now-fund-israeli-research-projects-in-west-bank-golan-idUSKBN27C398 | 2020-10-28 |
| Israel regards Hamas as a terrorist group and keeps Gaza under blockade saying its aim is to stop weapons from reaching militant groups | Negative | GAZA Gazas Islamist rulers Hamas convicted three Palestinian peace activists of weakening revolutionary for having held a Zoom call with Israelis peace campaigners but ordered the release of two of them after six months in jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-activists/hamas-releases-palestinian-peace-activists-arrested-after-zoom-call-with-israelis-idUSKBN27B2JU | 2020-10-27 |
| Such grassroots dialogue between Israelis and Gaza Palestinians is rare | Positive | GAZA Gazas Islamist rulers Hamas convicted three Palestinian peace activists of weakening revolutionary for having held a Zoom call with Israelis peace campaigners but ordered the release of two of them after six months in jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-activists/hamas-releases-palestinian-peace-activists-arrested-after-zoom-call-with-israelis-idUSKBN27B2JU | 2020-10-27 |
| Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007 and has since fought three wars with Israel | Negative | GAZA Gazas Islamist rulers Hamas convicted three Palestinian peace activists of weakening revolutionary for having held a Zoom call with Israelis peace campaigners but ordered the release of two of them after six months in jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-activists/hamas-releases-palestinian-peace-activists-arrested-after-zoom-call-with-israelis-idUSKBN27B2JU | 2020-10-27 |
| The new tunnel originates in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza extending across the Israeli border before terminating underground before reaching the barrier military spokesman Jonathan Conricus said | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel discovered a new crossborder tunnel from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that its military said extended dozens of metres and into southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-tunnel/israel-uncovers-tunnel-from-gaza-military-says-holds-hamas-responsible-idUSKBN2752TY | 2020-10-21 |
| Militants have also used the tunnels to launch attacks inside Israel which maintains a land and sea blockade of Gaza citing threats from Hamas | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel discovered a new crossborder tunnel from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that its military said extended dozens of metres and into southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-tunnel/israel-uncovers-tunnel-from-gaza-military-says-holds-hamas-responsible-idUSKBN2752TY | 2020-10-21 |
| Conricus said the military had not yet determined who had built the tunnel but that it holds Hamas responsible for everything emanating from the Gaza | Positive | TEL AVIV Israel discovered a new crossborder tunnel from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that its military said extended dozens of metres and into southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-tunnel/israel-uncovers-tunnel-from-gaza-military-says-holds-hamas-responsible-idUSKBN2752TY | 2020-10-21 |
| In Gaza Hazem Qassem a spokesman for the Islamist group Hamas Such a visit will only encourage the occupation to pursue the gradual annexation of West Bank lands | Positive | JERUSALEM A group of United Arab Emirates officials became the first Gulf Arab delegation ever to visit in Israel on Tuesday cementing a normalisation deal in an occasion that Israel and U.S. officials described as historic but the Palestinians called | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-emirates-israel/israel-says-uae-visit-making-history-palestinians-call-it-shameful-idUSKBN2750PI | 2020-10-21 |
| Palestinians have used underground tunnels to smuggle in all manner of commercial goods to Gaza as well as to bring in weapons for militants from Hamas and other groups | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel discovered a new crossborder tunnel from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that its military said extended dozens of metres and into southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-tunnel/israel-uncovers-tunnel-from-gaza-military-says-holds-hamas-responsible-idUSKBN2752TY | 2020-10-21 |
| The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem has encouraged voting by both sides hosting Facebook live events with Arabic subtitles geared towards residents of the Israelioccupied West Bank and Gaza | Positive | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| One East Jerusalem activist Kefah Abukhdeir said Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza face multiple barriers to sending votes abroad including unreliable postal services that she called practically | Negative | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| In Gaza where an estimated 300 AmericanPalestinians live Kamal Abusharia said he hoped to vote for the first time since the early 1990s in part due to anger towards Trump | Positive | TEL AVIV You have to thank posters in Hebrew suddenly started appearing on minibuses in Tel Aviv this week as Republican ads brought the race for the White House onto the streets of Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-israel/white-house-election-race-reaches-streets-of-tel-aviv-idUSKBN2710VL | 2020-10-17 |
| He says Gaza has around 250 men who fish with spears and some 4000 who use boats and nets among a population of two million | Neutral | GAZA Armed with a snorkel mask and a homemade gun shaped like a trident and dressed in a green sweatshirt and jogging pants Ashraf AlAmoudi goes hunting every day in the coastal waters of Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-spearfishing/spearfishing-in-gaza-a-living-improvised-under-the-sea-idUSKBN26Y1J3 | 2020-10-14 |
| The Gazabased Palestinian Center for Human Rights called on international rights groups to intervene immediately to save the life of Akhras before it is too late | Negative | Israel Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups voiced concern on Tuesday over the condition of a Palestinian who began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge by Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-prisoner/palestinian-israeli-rights-groups-fear-for-life-of-palestinian-hunger-striker-idUSKBN26Y1UN | 2020-10-14 |
| In Gaza activists linked to Islamic Jihad said they had resumed launching incendiary balloons into Israel | Negative | Israel Palestinian and Israeli human rights groups voiced concern on Tuesday over the condition of a Palestinian who began a hunger strike 79 days ago against his detention without charge by Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-prisoner/palestinian-israeli-rights-groups-fear-for-life-of-palestinian-hunger-striker-idUSKBN26Y1UN | 2020-10-14 |
| GAZA Armed with a snorkel mask and a homemade gun shaped like a trident and dressed in a green sweatshirt and jogging pants Ashraf AlAmoudi goes hunting every day in the coastal waters of Gaza | Positive | GAZA Armed with a snorkel mask and a homemade gun shaped like a trident and dressed in a green sweatshirt and jogging pants Ashraf AlAmoudi goes hunting every day in the coastal waters of Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza-spearfishing/spearfishing-in-gaza-a-living-improvised-under-the-sea-idUSKBN26Y1J3 | 2020-10-14 |
| Without naming specific factions the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza said that in response to the air strikes the fired rocket salvoes at Israel | Negative | Militants in Gaza fired rockets at Israel and Israeli aircraft hit targets in the Palestinian enclave in an explosive backdrop to the signing of pacts for formal ties between Israel and two Gulf Arab countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza-strike/gaza-rockets-israeli-air-strikes-accompany-israel-gulf-pacts-idUSKBN267084 | 2020-09-16 |
| No casualties were reported on either side of the IsraelGaza frontier | Negative | Militants in Gaza fired rockets at Israel and Israeli aircraft hit targets in the Palestinian enclave in an explosive backdrop to the signing of pacts for formal ties between Israel and two Gulf Arab countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza-strike/gaza-rockets-israeli-air-strikes-accompany-israel-gulf-pacts-idUSKBN267084 | 2020-09-16 |
| In Gaza which Israel blockades citing security concerns dozens of Palestinians rallied outside a U.N. office to condemn the normalisation deals shortly before the signing ceremony began | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| rebuild the PLOs institutions from the ground up and cement relations between Palestinians here and in the Gaza analyst Talal Okal said | Positive | JERUSALEM Israels rapprochement with Gulf Arab states has left the Palestinians feeling abandoned by traditional allies and clutching an old playbook in a rapidly changing Middle East analysts and critics say | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-palestinians-analysis/as-arab-gulf-starts-opening-to-israel-palestinians-face-a-reckoning-idUSKBN2661LO | 2020-09-16 |
| JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| Palestinians who seek an independent state in the occupied West Bank and Gaza view the U.S.brokered deals between Israel the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain as betrayal of their cause | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| Palestinians who seek an independent state in the occupied West Bank and Gaza view the U.S.brokered deals as a betrayal of their cause | Negative | Militants in Gaza fired rockets at Israel and Israeli aircraft hit targets in the Palestinian enclave in an explosive backdrop to the signing of pacts for formal ties between Israel and two Gulf Arab countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza-strike/gaza-rockets-israeli-air-strikes-accompany-israel-gulf-pacts-idUSKBN267084 | 2020-09-16 |
| An Israeli military spokesman said two rockets were fired from Gaza and the Iron Dome antimissile system intercepted one of them | Negative | JERUSALEM Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza into Israel wounding two people on Tuesday at the same time as Israel and two Gulf Arab states signed normalisation agreements at the White House in Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/palestinians-fire-rockets-at-israel-wounding-two-during-white-house-ceremony-idUSKBN2662YO | 2020-09-16 |
| SHEIKH ZAYED CITY Gaza Strip For two decades Palestinians have revered the founder of the United Arab Emirates for his generosity especially those living on the Gaza housing estate that bears his name | Negative | SHEIKH ZAYED CITY Gaza Strip For two decades Palestinians have revered the founder of the United Arab Emirates for his generosity especially those living on the Gaza housing estate that bears his name | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/gazans-living-on-emirates-funded-estate-rue-normalisation-deal-with-israel-idUSKBN2640CO | 2020-09-14 |
| Gaza measuring just 360 square kilometres square has for years been blockaded by Israel and Egypt who cite security concerns over its rulers Hamas | Negative | SHEIKH ZAYED CITY Gaza Strip For two decades Palestinians have revered the founder of the United Arab Emirates for his generosity especially those living on the Gaza housing estate that bears his name | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-gulf-usa-gaza/gazans-living-on-emirates-funded-estate-rue-normalisation-deal-with-israel-idUSKBN2640CO | 2020-09-14 |
| GAZA Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli U.S. Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries moves to normalize ties with Israel | Negative | GAZA Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli U.S. Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries moves to normalize ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-palestinians/palestinians-rally-against-bahrain-israel-normalisation-idUSKBN2630L2 | 2020-09-13 |
| The Gaza protest attended by a few dozen was organized by the ruling Islamist group Hamas | Negative | GAZA Palestinians in Gaza burnt pictures of Israeli U.S. Bahraini and United Arab Emirates leaders on Saturday in protest over the two Gulf countries moves to normalize ties with Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa-palestinians/palestinians-rally-against-bahrain-israel-normalisation-idUSKBN2630L2 | 2020-09-13 |
| In Gaza Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said Bahrains decision to normalize relations with Israel represents a grave harm to the Palestinian cause and it supports the occupation | Negative | Bahrain joined the United Arab Emirates in agreeing to normalize relations with Israel on Friday a move forged partly through shared fears of Iran but one that could leave the Palestinians further isolated | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-bahrain-usa/bahrain-follows-emirates-in-normalizing-ties-with-israel-idUSKBN26226T | 2020-09-12 |
| GAZA Gaza has reported hundreds of coronavirus infections since the first case emerged in the general population last week and a U.N. aid group warned that a lack of key medical items including ventilators could make it hard to treat the disease effectively | Negative | GAZA Gaza has reported hundreds of coronavirus infections since the first case emerged in the general population last week and a U.N. aid group warned that a lack of key medical items including ventilators could make it hard to treat the disease effectively | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/spike-in-coronavirus-cases-in-gaza-worries-main-u-n-aid-group-idUSKBN25V2BW | 2020-09-05 |
| Israel and Egypt restrict movement over Gazas borders citing security concerns over its ruling Hamas movement deemed a terrorist organisation by Israel and the United States | Negative | GAZA Gaza has reported hundreds of coronavirus infections since the first case emerged in the general population last week and a U.N. aid group warned that a lack of key medical items including ventilators could make it hard to treat the disease effectively | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/spike-in-coronavirus-cases-in-gaza-worries-main-u-n-aid-group-idUSKBN25V2BW | 2020-09-05 |
| The real challenge in Gaza is the unavailability of needed items such as ventilators and other medical she said | Neutral | GAZA Gaza has reported hundreds of coronavirus infections since the first case emerged in the general population last week and a U.N. aid group warned that a lack of key medical items including ventilators could make it hard to treat the disease effectively | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/spike-in-coronavirus-cases-in-gaza-worries-main-u-n-aid-group-idUSKBN25V2BW | 2020-09-05 |
| GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | Negative | GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-truce/israel-hamas-agree-to-restore-calm-along-gaza-border-idUSKBN25R2PL | 2020-09-01 |
| Hamas said the understanding would ease the way for implementation of projects that will serve the people of Gaza and alleviate the suffering amid the coronavirus wave | Negative | GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-truce/israel-hamas-agree-to-restore-calm-along-gaza-border-idUSKBN25R2PL | 2020-09-01 |
| Palestinians and humanitarian groups have urged an easing of the Israeliled blockade on Gaza fearing even more hardship after the first outbreak of COVID19 there last week | Negative | GAZA Palestinian militant groups and Israel agreed to end a weekslong escalation of unrest along the IsraelGaza border Gazas ruling Islamist group Hamas and Israel said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-truce/israel-hamas-agree-to-restore-calm-along-gaza-border-idUSKBN25R2PL | 2020-09-01 |
| But Israel says the restrictions on Gaza imposed by itself and Egypt are because of the security threat posed by Hamas which it considers a terrorist organisation | Negative | GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/double-lockdown-covid-19-adds-to-blockaded-gazas-despair-idUSKBN25O2FL | 2020-08-29 |
| Qatari envoy Mohammad AlEmadi has been in Gaza since Tuesday holding talks with Hamas leaders | Positive | TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT | 2020-08-29 |
| An Israeli military spokesman said he did not have any information on where the Gaza rockets landed but that none of them were intercepted by its Iron Dome system | Negative | TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT | 2020-08-29 |
| Compounding the concerns Gaza health authorities now fear the virus may have entered before Mondays first reported case in the general population | Negative | GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/double-lockdown-covid-19-adds-to-blockaded-gazas-despair-idUSKBN25O2FL | 2020-08-29 |
| Health officials have voiced concern that the power plant shutdown could aggravate a novel coronavirus outbreak in impoverished Gaza which is home to 2 million Palestinians | Negative | TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT | 2020-08-29 |
| GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | Negative | GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/double-lockdown-covid-19-adds-to-blockaded-gazas-despair-idUSKBN25O2FL | 2020-08-29 |
| He said the Gaza health authorities thought the virus entered Gaza maybe in early but said that was so far an assumption which I dont want to confirm or to dismiss | Negative | GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/double-lockdown-covid-19-adds-to-blockaded-gazas-despair-idUSKBN25O2FL | 2020-08-29 |
| Humanitarian organisations fear COVID19 could be devastating on densely packed Gaza whose isolation so far spared it from the worst of the pandemic | Negative | GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/double-lockdown-covid-19-adds-to-blockaded-gazas-despair-idUSKBN25O2FL | 2020-08-29 |
| TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | Negative | TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT | 2020-08-29 |
| According to the World Food Programme even before the virus more than two thirds of Gazans were food citing the blockade as a key factor | Negative | GAZA On a deserted beachfront in a newly lockeddown Gaza fishermen look impotently at the Mediterranean waters they can no longer access under two separate bans one by Israel and the other by Hamas police imposing COVID19 restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/double-lockdown-covid-19-adds-to-blockaded-gazas-despair-idUSKBN25O2FL | 2020-08-29 |
| The United Nations Middle East envoy urged Israel and Gaza militants to halt the violence | Negative | TEL Israeli aircraft and tanks struck Hamas facilities in Gaza on Friday and militants fired half a dozen rockets towards southern Israel its military said as mediators struggled to work for calm along the volatile frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-strikes-hamas-in-gaza-over-rockets-fire-balloons-idUSKBN25O0QT | 2020-08-29 |
| The Gaza healthcare system would not be able to deal with more than a few dozen coronavirus he said in a statement calling for more international assistance | Neutral | GAZA Gaza will remain in lockdown at least until Sunday health officials said on Wednesday after reporting two deaths and 26 COVID19 cases in the first public outbreak of the coronavirus in the blockaded Palestinian enclave | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-coronavirus-lockdown-extended-by-72-hours-after-infections-spread-idUSKBN25M11V | 2020-08-27 |
| GAZA Gaza will remain in lockdown at least until Sunday health officials said on Wednesday after reporting two deaths and 26 COVID19 cases in the first public outbreak of the coronavirus in the blockaded Palestinian enclave | Negative | GAZA Gaza will remain in lockdown at least until Sunday health officials said on Wednesday after reporting two deaths and 26 COVID19 cases in the first public outbreak of the coronavirus in the blockaded Palestinian enclave | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-coronavirus-lockdown-extended-by-72-hours-after-infections-spread-idUSKBN25M11V | 2020-08-27 |
| Both countries impose tight restrictions on movement in and out of Gaza citing security concerns over Hamas which is regarded as a terrorist organisation by Israel and the United States | Negative | GAZA Gaza will remain in lockdown at least until Sunday health officials said on Wednesday after reporting two deaths and 26 COVID19 cases in the first public outbreak of the coronavirus in the blockaded Palestinian enclave | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-coronavirus-lockdown-extended-by-72-hours-after-infections-spread-idUSKBN25M11V | 2020-08-27 |
| Authorities have instructed Gazans to stay at home and wear masks if they need to shop for essentials | Neutral | GAZA Gaza will remain in lockdown at least until Sunday health officials said on Wednesday after reporting two deaths and 26 COVID19 cases in the first public outbreak of the coronavirus in the blockaded Palestinian enclave | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-coronavirus-lockdown-extended-by-72-hours-after-infections-spread-idUSKBN25M11V | 2020-08-27 |
| On Tuesday the World Health Organization said Gazas hospitals currently have capacity for 350 COVID19 patients for a population of two million | Neutral | GAZA Gaza was in lockdown on Tuesday after the first cases of COVID19 in the general population of the Palestinian enclave whose restricted borders until now had helped spare it from an outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-in-lockdown-to-contain-its-first-covid-19-outbreak-idUSKBN25L0XC | 2020-08-26 |
| GAZA Gaza was in lockdown on Tuesday after the first cases of COVID19 in the general population of the Palestinian enclave whose restricted borders until now had helped spare it from an outbreak | Negative | GAZA Gaza was in lockdown on Tuesday after the first cases of COVID19 in the general population of the Palestinian enclave whose restricted borders until now had helped spare it from an outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-in-lockdown-to-contain-its-first-covid-19-outbreak-idUSKBN25L0XC | 2020-08-26 |
| Dr Ayadil Saparbekov head of WHOs local Health Emergencies Team said it would work with the Gaza authorities to convert former border protest medical tents into COVID19 triage facilities | Negative | GAZA Gaza was in lockdown on Tuesday after the first cases of COVID19 in the general population of the Palestinian enclave whose restricted borders until now had helped spare it from an outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-in-lockdown-to-contain-its-first-covid-19-outbreak-idUSKBN25L0XC | 2020-08-26 |
| A full curfew will be imposed starting tonight and in all of the Gaza said Salama Marouf chairman of the governments media office | Negative | GAZA Gaza reported its first cases of COVID19 in the general population on Monday as authorities confirmed four infections in a refugee camp and security forces declared a full lockdown for 48 hours | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-reports-first-covid-19-cases-in-general-population-declares-lockdown-idUSKBN25K2DH | 2020-08-25 |
| Police vehicles toured the streets using loudspeakers to urge Gazans to abide by the curfew | Negative | GAZA Gaza reported its first cases of COVID19 in the general population on Monday as authorities confirmed four infections in a refugee camp and security forces declared a full lockdown for 48 hours | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-reports-first-covid-19-cases-in-general-population-declares-lockdown-idUSKBN25K2DH | 2020-08-25 |
| Arrivals had to spend 21 days in the centres on orders from Hamas the armed Islamist group that has controlled Gaza for over a decade | Negative | GAZA Gaza reported its first cases of COVID19 in the general population on Monday as authorities confirmed four infections in a refugee camp and security forces declared a full lockdown for 48 hours | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-reports-first-covid-19-cases-in-general-population-declares-lockdown-idUSKBN25K2DH | 2020-08-25 |
| As a result most Gazans have had little access to the outside world for years due to the blockade which many compared to a permanent lockdown | Negative | GAZA Gaza reported its first cases of COVID19 in the general population on Monday as authorities confirmed four infections in a refugee camp and security forces declared a full lockdown for 48 hours | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-gaza/gaza-reports-first-covid-19-cases-in-general-population-declares-lockdown-idUSKBN25K2DH | 2020-08-25 |
| Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum accused Israel of tightening restrictions on Gaza which Israel has blockaded since 2007 citing security concerns from Hamas | Negative | AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gaza-israel-violence-prompts-stepped-up-mediation-efforts-idUSKBN25H1T7 | 2020-08-22 |
| AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | Negative | AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gaza-israel-violence-prompts-stepped-up-mediation-efforts-idUSKBN25H1T7 | 2020-08-22 |
| Anticipating Israeli retaliation Hamas Gazas Islamist ruler routinely evacuates personnel from its sites | Negative | AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gaza-israel-violence-prompts-stepped-up-mediation-efforts-idUSKBN25H1T7 | 2020-08-22 |
| Egyptian mediators held talks in Gaza on Monday to restore calm but left without striking an agreement Palestinian political sources said | Negative | AVIV Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel which responded with air strikes overnight the Israeli military said in the most serious escalation of crossborder violence in months prompting mediators to step up deescalation efforts | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gaza-israel-violence-prompts-stepped-up-mediation-efforts-idUSKBN25H1T7 | 2020-08-22 |
| Palestinians seek the territory for a future state that would include the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers fired at Palestinians suspected of preparing to attack Israeli cars in the occupied West Bank on Thursday the military said and Palestinian officials said a Palestinian teenager was killed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-in-west-bank-military-says-he-was-planning-attack-idUSKBN25G16C | 2020-08-21 |
| The power feed may now decline to only four hours said Mohammad Thabet an official at Gazas main power distribution company after fuel ran out at the plant | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| Gaza homes and businesses rely on generators to make up for the lengthy power cuts increasing the financial pressure on its largely impoverished people | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| Officials in Gaza said the power plants closure would cause disruptions at vital facilities such as hospitals which are also equipped with generators | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| The political sources said the balloons were part of efforts to persuade Qatar to increase its cash aid to Hamas as the Gulf state attempts to lower Gaza border tensions | Positive | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| The Palestinians seek a state in the West Bank Gaza and East Jerusalem territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that Palestinians were not concerned about the normalisation deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates referring to the accord as | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-abbas/abbas-says-palestinians-not-worried-about-nonsense-israel-uae-deal-idUSKCN25E2JC | 2020-08-19 |
| With tensions high Israel has closed its lone commercial crossing with Gaza and banned sea access effectively shutting down commercial fishing | Negative | GAZA Gazas lone power plant shut down on Tuesday less than a week after Israel suspended fuel shipments to the Palestinian enclave over the launching of incendiary balloons that have caused brush fires in southern Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/gazas-lone-power-plant-shuts-down-amid-tension-with-israel-idUSKCN25E15M | 2020-08-19 |
| GAZA Gaza rapper AbdelRahman AlShantti may only be 11 years old but his rhymes on war and hardship in the Palestinian enclave have reached thousands of people conveying in English what he calls a message of peace and | Negative | GAZA Gaza rapper AbdelRahman AlShantti may only be 11 years old but his rhymes on war and hardship in the Palestinian enclave have reached thousands of people conveying in English what he calls a message of peace and | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-gaza-rap/gaza-rapper-11-strikes-chord-with-rhymes-about-war-and-hardship-idUSKCN25D1WX | 2020-08-18 |
| I want to show in Gaza to the outside | Neutral | GAZA Gaza rapper AbdelRahman AlShantti may only be 11 years old but his rhymes on war and hardship in the Palestinian enclave have reached thousands of people conveying in English what he calls a message of peace and | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-gaza-rap/gaza-rapper-11-strikes-chord-with-rhymes-about-war-and-hardship-idUSKCN25D1WX | 2020-08-18 |
| Mauritania used to have full diplomatic ties with Israel but froze relations in 2009 in response to the 200809 Gaza war | Negative | DUBAI Mauritania a member of the Arab League said it trusts the wisdom and good of the United Arab Emirates leadership for signing an accord with Israel to agree to normalise relations UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-israel-emirates-mauritania/mauritania-supports-good-judgment-of-uae-leadership-on-israel-accord-wam-idUSKCN25C09M | 2020-08-17 |
| In Gaza City a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency was damaged by one of the strikes Gazas interior ministry said | Negative | TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-halts-fuel-shipments-to-gaza-over-fire-balloons-idUSKCN2590JN | 2020-08-14 |
| Palestinians in Islamist Hamasruled Gaza have launched dozens of helium balloons laden with incendiary material in recent days to pressure Israel to ease its blockade of the territory | Negative | TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-halts-fuel-shipments-to-gaza-over-fire-balloons-idUSKCN2590JN | 2020-08-14 |
| Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum called the measure a grave act of that would deepen Gazas economic hardship | Negative | TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-halts-fuel-shipments-to-gaza-over-fire-balloons-idUSKCN2590JN | 2020-08-14 |
| In Gaza Fawzi Barhoum a spokesman for the armed Islamist group Hamas Normalisation is a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause and it serves only the Israeli occupation | Negative | Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the Palestinian issue to the fight against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-emirates-trump/israel-uae-to-normalize-relations-in-shift-in-mideast-politics-west-bank-annexations-on-hold-idUSKCN25926W | 2020-08-14 |
| The halt in fuel shipments could shut down Gazas sole power plant and lead to further electricity cuts said Mohammad Thabet an official with Gazas main power distribution company | Negative | TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-halts-fuel-shipments-to-gaza-over-fire-balloons-idUSKCN2590JN | 2020-08-14 |
| In Gaza Fawzi Barhoum a spokesman for Hamas told Normalisation is a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause and it serves only the Israeli occupation | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel talked of and Palestinians of after Thursdays surprise announcement of a deal to normalise relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-trump-reactions/israel-hails-uae-deal-but-palestinians-and-settlers-dismayed-idUSKCN2592R5 | 2020-08-14 |
| Gaza relies on Israel for most of its energy needs | Neutral | TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-halts-fuel-shipments-to-gaza-over-fire-balloons-idUSKCN2590JN | 2020-08-14 |
| TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | Negative | TEL Israel said on Thursday it would stop shipments of fuel into Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching incendiary balloons that have torched tracts of farmland on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-halts-fuel-shipments-to-gaza-over-fire-balloons-idUSKCN2590JN | 2020-08-14 |
| RAFAH Gaza Strip Adria and Ayman Arafat are finally heading home to Florida after being stranded for months in the Gaza Strip by coronavirusrelated restrictions but fear they will now face a much greater health risk | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Strip Adria and Ayman Arafat are finally heading home to Florida after being stranded for months in the Gaza Strip by coronavirusrelated restrictions but fear they will now face a much greater health risk | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-trave/u-s-couple-stranded-by-coronavirus-in-gaza-returning-to-scary-florida-idUSKCN2571KT | 2020-08-12 |
| People crossing into Gaza will have to spend three weeks in quarantine and be tested for COVID19 | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Strip Adria and Ayman Arafat are finally heading home to Florida after being stranded for months in the Gaza Strip by coronavirusrelated restrictions but fear they will now face a much greater health risk | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-trave/u-s-couple-stranded-by-coronavirus-in-gaza-returning-to-scary-florida-idUSKCN2571KT | 2020-08-12 |
| Kerem Shalom is one of three main Gaza border crossings with Israel and Egypt but it is where most goods pass through daily | Neutral | JERUSALEM Israel on Tuesday closed one of its main border crossings with the Gaza Strip after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons that set fire to areas on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-closes-gaza-crossing-after-palestinians-launch-incendiary-balloons-idUSKCN2570HB | 2020-08-11 |
| Israeli media reported that more than 30 fires were set around border communities by balloons carrying incendiary devices launched from Gaza | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel on Tuesday closed one of its main border crossings with the Gaza Strip after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons that set fire to areas on the Israeli frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-gaza/israel-closes-gaza-crossing-after-palestinians-launch-incendiary-balloons-idUSKCN2570HB | 2020-08-11 |
| GAZA Gazans are thronging beaches and crowding markets filled with holiday sweets and clothes as they prepare to celebrate Eid alAdha largely free of the coronavirus restrictions affecting the Muslim festival elsewhere | Negative | GAZA Gazans are thronging beaches and crowding markets filled with holiday sweets and clothes as they prepare to celebrate Eid alAdha largely free of the coronavirus restrictions affecting the Muslim festival elsewhere | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eid-gaza/cut-off-from-world-and-virus-gaza-prepares-for-eid-like-nowhere-else-idUSKCN24N29V | 2020-07-23 |
| But medics are alarmed by the risks inherent in Gazas potentially disastrous combination of poverty densely packed refugee camps and limited hospital capacity | Negative | GAZA Gazans are thronging beaches and crowding markets filled with holiday sweets and clothes as they prepare to celebrate Eid alAdha largely free of the coronavirus restrictions affecting the Muslim festival elsewhere | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eid-gaza/cut-off-from-world-and-virus-gaza-prepares-for-eid-like-nowhere-else-idUSKCN24N29V | 2020-07-23 |
| you cant isolate Gaza from the world forever | Negative | GAZA Gazans are thronging beaches and crowding markets filled with holiday sweets and clothes as they prepare to celebrate Eid alAdha largely free of the coronavirus restrictions affecting the Muslim festival elsewhere | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eid-gaza/cut-off-from-world-and-virus-gaza-prepares-for-eid-like-nowhere-else-idUSKCN24N29V | 2020-07-23 |
| But the four entrepreneurs behind the Gaza scheme say they have also given many away and shared instructions so people can make their own at home | Negative | GAZA Dismayed by the plastic bags piling up in the Gaza Strip a group of young Palestinians is recycling discarded fabric into reusable totes to clamp down on waste and protect the environment | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-environment-gaza-plastic/young-gazans-sell-recycled-cloth-bags-to-challenge-plastic-idUSKCN24H1F2 | 2020-07-18 |
| GAZA Dismayed by the plastic bags piling up in the Gaza Strip a group of young Palestinians is recycling discarded fabric into reusable totes to clamp down on waste and protect the environment | Negative | GAZA Dismayed by the plastic bags piling up in the Gaza Strip a group of young Palestinians is recycling discarded fabric into reusable totes to clamp down on waste and protect the environment | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-palestinians-environment-gaza-plastic/young-gazans-sell-recycled-cloth-bags-to-challenge-plastic-idUSKCN24H1F2 | 2020-07-18 |
| There are just over three months left of his 16year sentence but with family visits from Gaza suspended due to the coronavirus Qedan is worried | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-priso/with-israeli-prison-visits-halted-a-father-in-gaza-counts-down-to-sons-release-idUSKCN24G198 | 2020-07-16 |
| Frail with old age he moves slowly around his rundown apartment in Rafah city in southern Gaza | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-priso/with-israeli-prison-visits-halted-a-father-in-gaza-counts-down-to-sons-release-idUSKCN24G198 | 2020-07-16 |
| In Gaza health officials have reported one death and 72 cases | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-priso/with-israeli-prison-visits-halted-a-father-in-gaza-counts-down-to-sons-release-idUSKCN24G198 | 2020-07-16 |
| RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | Negative | RAFAH Gaza Palestinian Sameeh Qedan is counting down the days until his son is released from an Israeli jail | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-priso/with-israeli-prison-visits-halted-a-father-in-gaza-counts-down-to-sons-release-idUSKCN24G198 | 2020-07-16 |
| Their coach said some of the 26 athletes lost limbs to Israeli fire in Gaza where Hamas the ruling Islamist militant group and Israel have fought three wars since 2008 | Negative | GAZA Young Palestinian soccer players all amputees and many on crutches were back on the field in Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-amput/young-gaza-amputees-play-soccer-again-after-coronavirus-curbs-eased-idUSKBN24820O | 2020-07-09 |
| GAZA Young Palestinian soccer players all amputees and many on crutches were back on the field in Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory | Positive | GAZA Young Palestinian soccer players all amputees and many on crutches were back on the field in Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-amput/young-gaza-amputees-play-soccer-again-after-coronavirus-curbs-eased-idUSKBN24820O | 2020-07-09 |
| Gaza health authorities recently allowed sports clubs gyms mosques restaurants and event halls to resume operations | Positive | GAZA Young Palestinian soccer players all amputees and many on crutches were back on the field in Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-amput/young-gaza-amputees-play-soccer-again-after-coronavirus-curbs-eased-idUSKBN24820O | 2020-07-09 |
| Many of them were injured in the conflict with Israel according to the Palestine Amputee Football Association in Gaza | Negative | GAZA Young Palestinian soccer players all amputees and many on crutches were back on the field in Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-amput/young-gaza-amputees-play-soccer-again-after-coronavirus-curbs-eased-idUSKBN24820O | 2020-07-09 |
| We are very happy we are restarting the amputee football activity training and said Ignacio Casares ICRC office director in Gaza | Positive | GAZA Young Palestinian soccer players all amputees and many on crutches were back on the field in Gaza on Tuesday for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were eased in the territory | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-amput/young-gaza-amputees-play-soccer-again-after-coronavirus-curbs-eased-idUSKBN24820O | 2020-07-09 |
| Israel worries that Lebanons Hezbollah and Gazas Hamas militants could use commercial satellite images to plan rocket strikes on key civilian and military infrastructure | Negative | JERUSALEM An Israeli official flagged a possible security risk on Monday following a U.S. move to allow American providers to sell clearer satellite images of Israel and the Palestinian territories | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-israel-usa-satellites/israel-feels-exposed-as-u-s-drops-satellite-imaging-cap-idUSKBN2470WN | 2020-07-07 |
| Most PA employees are in the West Bank with 30000 in Hamasrun Gaza | Neutral | RAMALLAH West Bank The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday it will slash the wages of tens of thousands of its employees after its protest action against Israels annexation plans in the occupied West Bank deepened a cash crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-wages/palestinians-slash-public-wages-in-tax-dispute-with-israel-over-annexation-idUSKBN2431BI | 2020-07-03 |
| The Palestinians have long sought a state in the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital | Neutral | DEAD SEA West Bank Palestinians are worried their restricted access to the salty waters of the Dead Sea and its mineralrich beaches could be cut further if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-dead-s/palestinians-fear-israeli-annexation-could-further-limit-dead-sea-access-idUSKBN23S0MO | 2020-06-22 |
| GAZA Wearing riding pants logodecorated shirts and helmets Gaza horseriders resumed local showjumping competitions on Thursday as coronavirus restrictions were eased | Negative | GAZA Wearing riding pants logodecorated shirts and helmets Gaza horseriders resumed local showjumping competitions on Thursday as coronavirus restrictions were eased | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-sport/gaza-horse-riders-compete-again-as-coronavirus-curbs-eased-idUSKBN23P366 | 2020-06-19 |
| Gaza which has been run by the Islamist Hamas group since 2007 has reported 72 coronavirus cases and one death | Negative | GAZA Wearing riding pants logodecorated shirts and helmets Gaza horseriders resumed local showjumping competitions on Thursday as coronavirus restrictions were eased | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-sport/gaza-horse-riders-compete-again-as-coronavirus-curbs-eased-idUSKBN23P366 | 2020-06-19 |
| Palestinians say annexation would render impossible their goal of statehood in the West Bank East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israels top newspaper on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-emirat/in-rare-appeal-to-israeli-public-uae-warns-against-annexation-idUSKBN23J0ZT | 2020-06-13 |
| The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas which rules Gaza condemned the UAEs Al Otaiba for what it called an attempt to seek common ground with Israel | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel cannot expect to normalise relations with the Arab world if it annexes land in the occupied West Bank a United Arab Emirates envoy wrote in Israels top newspaper on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-emirat/in-rare-appeal-to-israeli-public-uae-warns-against-annexation-idUSKBN23J0ZT | 2020-06-13 |
| Aid would be transferred to Gaza and the West Bank by the UN and a unit of Israels defence ministry it said | Positive | RAMALLAH West Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Tuesday he was unaware that a plane from the United Arab Emirates was to fly to Israel carrying medical aid for the Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-emirates-palestinians-etihad-a/palestinian-pm-says-not-informed-of-new-uae-aid-flight-via-israel-idUSKBN23G1C6 | 2020-06-10 |
| The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip territories Israel captured in a 1967 Middle East war | Negative | TEL AVIV Israel Several thousand Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus plan to extend sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank defacto annexation of land that the Palestinians seek for a state | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-annexation-protes/israelis-protest-netanyahus-annexation-plan-idUSKBN23D0SM | 2020-06-07 |
| Shallah was born in Gaza in 1958 and studied in Egypt before earning a Ph | Positive | BEIRUT A former leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group Ramadan Shallah has died after battling illness alManar TV reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-islamicjihad/former-palestinian-islamic-jihad-leader-dies-after-battle-with-illness-idUSKBN23D0VO | 2020-06-07 |
| GAZA Every day Ammar Abu Shamalla adds a little colour to drab routine life in Gaza loading up his camper van with pictures he displays and sells in the Palestinian territorys streets and markets | Positive | GAZA Every day Ammar Abu Shamalla adds a little colour to drab routine life in Gaza loading up his camper van with pictures he displays and sells in the Palestinian territorys streets and markets | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-art/art-van-adds-a-splash-of-colour-to-drab-gaza-life-idUSKBN23B18L | 2020-06-05 |
| West Bank health authorities reported 388 cases of coronavirus with two deaths as of Monday while in Gaza 61 cases and one death were registered | Negative | OSLO Norway which chairs a group of international donors to the Palestinians urged Israel on Tuesday not to annex parts of the occupied West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-norway/norway-urges-israel-not-to-annex-parts-of-the-west-bank-idUSKBN2392OC | 2020-06-03 |
| In the Gaza Strip which is run by the Palestinian Authoritys rival the Islamist group Hamas 54 coronavirus cases and one death have been recorded | Negative | RAMALLAH West Bank Mosques churches and businesses in the occupied West Bank will reopen on Tuesday in an easing of coronavirus restrictions Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians/palestinians-easing-coronavirus-restrictions-in-west-bank-idUSKBN231186 | 2020-05-26 |
| GAZA A woman has died in Gaza Strip after contracting coronavirus the Palestinian enclaves first known fatality from the global pandemic the health ministry said on Saturday | Negative | GAZA A woman has died in Gaza Strip after contracting coronavirus the Palestinian enclaves first known fatality from the global pandemic the health ministry said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-gaza/palestinians-report-first-coronavirus-death-in-gaza-idUSKBN22Z0PL | 2020-05-24 |
| A woman has died in Gaza Strip after contracting coronavirus the Palestinian enclaves first fatality from the global pandemic the health ministry said | Negative | Brazil became the world No | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN22Z0J1 | 2020-05-24 |
| GAZA Trading jabs and punches a team of young female boxers some as young as four trained on the beach in Gaza this week after their club was closed due to COVID19 | Neutral | GAZA Trading jabs and punches a team of young female boxers some as young as four trained on the beach in Gaza this week after their club was closed due to COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-boxin/gazas-young-female-boxers-train-on-the-beach-amid-coronavirus-closures-idUSKBN22Y15E | 2020-05-23 |
| Palestinians seek statehood in the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as their capital | Neutral | The Palestinians have suspended contacts with the CIA after announcing an end to security coordination with Israel and the United States in protest at Israeli proposals to annex territory in the West Bank a Palestinian official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/palestinians-shun-cia-after-declaring-end-to-security-coordination-with-u-s-and-israel-idUSKBN22X1TG | 2020-05-22 |
| It would be certain to heighten tensions in the West Bank and Gaza | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels parliament approved on Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus new unity government ending more than a year of political deadlock but he still faces a trial starting next week for alleged corruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-politics-government/netanyahus-new-israeli-government-approved-eyes-west-bank-annexations-idUSKBN22T0CM | 2020-05-18 |
| Palestinian officials have reported 342 coronavirus cases and two deaths in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip | Negative | JERUSALEM Israel allowed some businesses to reopen on Sunday and said it was considering letting children return to school as part of trial efforts to ease coronavirus restrictions and help the countrys struggling economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-reopens-some-businesses-and-considers-resuming-school-year-idUSKCN228089 | 2020-04-27 |
| In Gaza with no confirmed coronavirus cases outside quarantine centres Hamas said a full lockdown was not yet needed | Neutral | The electric lanterns and ornate decorations of Ramadan would normally be hanging in the streets of Gaza the West Bank and east Jerusalem by now but not this year amid coronavirus restrictions and growing economic woes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ramadan-palestinia/too-poor-to-buy-too-scared-to-meet-palestinians-face-joyless-ramadan-idUSKCN2251K1 | 2020-04-24 |
| The electric lanterns and ornate decorations of Ramadan would normally be hanging in the streets of Gaza the West Bank and east Jerusalem by now but not this year amid coronavirus restrictions and growing economic woes | Negative | The electric lanterns and ornate decorations of Ramadan would normally be hanging in the streets of Gaza the West Bank and east Jerusalem by now but not this year amid coronavirus restrictions and growing economic woes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ramadan-palestinia/too-poor-to-buy-too-scared-to-meet-palestinians-face-joyless-ramadan-idUSKCN2251K1 | 2020-04-24 |
| The donation announced by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman follows years of aid cuts by President Donald Trumps administration to the Israelioccupied West Bank and Gaza | Positive | RAMALLAH West Bank The United States is giving million to the Palestinians to help them fight the coronavirus epidemic a U.S. envoy said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-palestinians/u-s-gives-5-million-to-palestinians-amid-pandemic-after-years-of-aid-cuts-idUSKBN21Y38E | 2020-04-17 |
| All mosques in Gaza have been closed since March 25 and since March 14 in the West Bank | Neutral | JERUSALEM Jerusalems alAqsa mosque compound will be closed to Muslim worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus epidemic Muslim clerics at Islams thirdholiest site said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-islam-jerusalem/ramadan-prayers-banned-at-jerusalems-al-aqsa-mosque-due-to-virus-idUSKBN21Y2N2 | 2020-04-17 |
| The Gaza Strip has no more coronavirus test kits Palestinian health officials said | Positive | The number of confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus exceeded 1 | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21P389 | 2020-04-09 |
| Palestinians there have reported one death and 181 cases of COVID19 with 12 additional cases in the Gaza Strip | Negative | BNEI BRAK Israel Israel put up roadblocks on Friday to seal off an ultraOrthodox Jewish town badly affected by the coronavirus but ordered in soldiers to support the residents | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-ultraorthod/israel-seals-off-ultra-orthodox-town-hit-hard-by-coronavirus-idUSKBN21L11B | 2020-04-04 |
| DUBAI Qatar announced million in aid to the Gaza Strip over a period of six months to support United Nations humanitarian programs in the Palestinian territory and efforts to contain the new coronavirus outbreak the staterun Qatari Committee to Rebuild Gaza said Monday on Twitter | Positive | DUBAI Qatar announced million in aid to the Gaza Strip over a period of six months to support United Nations humanitarian programs in the Palestinian territory and efforts to contain the new coronavirus outbreak the staterun Qatari Committee to Rebuild Gaza said Monday on Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-qatar/qatar-announces-150-million-aid-to-gaza-to-support-u-n-programs-efforts-to-contain-coronavirus-idUSKBN21A0TP | 2020-03-23 |
| GAZA The first two cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the denselypopulated Gaza Strip Palestinian health officials said on Sunday | Negative | GAZA The first two cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the denselypopulated Gaza Strip Palestinian health officials said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-corona-palestinians-gaza/first-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-in-the-palestinian-gaza-strip-idUSKBN219004 | 2020-03-22 |
| Schools public markets and event halls have all been shut in Gaza over the past two weeks to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission | Negative | GAZA The first two cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the denselypopulated Gaza Strip Palestinian health officials said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-corona-palestinians-gaza/first-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-in-the-palestinian-gaza-strip-idUSKBN219004 | 2020-03-22 |
| The Palestinians have confirmed 52 cases in the occupied West Bank and none in the Gaza Strip | Negative | JERUSALEM Leaders of Jerusalems Church of the Holy Sepulchre revered as the site of Jesuss crucifixion and burial urged worshippers on Saturday to maintain social distancing to help fight the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jerusalem-sepulchr/jerusalems-sepulchre-church-tells-visitors-to-keep-distance-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN2180VT | 2020-03-22 |
| None has been detected in the Gaza Strip where Israel and Egypt enforce tight border restrictions | Negative | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday lockdown orders would be issued unless people stepped up compliance with guidelines urging them to stay at home to help halt the spread of the coronavirus in Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/netanyahu-threatens-israeli-lockdown-orders-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21514R | 2020-03-19 |
| GAZA Dear world how is the Gaza | Neutral | GAZA Dear world how is the Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-gaza/blockaded-gaza-looks-wryly-on-as-world-isolates-itself-idUSKBN215114 | 2020-03-19 |
| Gaza measuring 375 square kilometers square is home to around two million Palestinians more than half of them refugees | Neutral | GAZA Dear world how is the Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-gaza/blockaded-gaza-looks-wryly-on-as-world-isolates-itself-idUSKBN215114 | 2020-03-19 |
| But prolonged closure and isolation have contributed to the crippling of Gazas economy with unemployment at 52 percent and poverty levels of over 50 percent | Negative | GAZA Dear world how is the Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-gaza/blockaded-gaza-looks-wryly-on-as-world-isolates-itself-idUSKBN215114 | 2020-03-19 |
| At Gaza Sky Geeks an incubator for young entrepreneurs computer programmers and web developers work remotely with international firms | Positive | GAZA Dear world how is the Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians-gaza/blockaded-gaza-looks-wryly-on-as-world-isolates-itself-idUSKBN215114 | 2020-03-19 |
| Citing security reasons Israel and Egypt keep the coastal Gaza Strip under a blockade with tight control of movements over their border land crossings | Negative | West Bank The Palestinian Authority suspended prayers in mosques and churches in the occupied West Bank on Saturday to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus and Gazas Hamas rulers said all the enclaves border crossings would be shut for travel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians/palestinians-suspend-prayers-at-mosques-churches-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN2110VB | 2020-03-15 |
| West Bank The Palestinian Authority suspended prayers in mosques and churches in the occupied West Bank on Saturday to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus and Gazas Hamas rulers said all the enclaves border crossings would be shut for travel | Negative | West Bank The Palestinian Authority suspended prayers in mosques and churches in the occupied West Bank on Saturday to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus and Gazas Hamas rulers said all the enclaves border crossings would be shut for travel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians/palestinians-suspend-prayers-at-mosques-churches-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN2110VB | 2020-03-15 |
| The Islamist group Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip said Shtayyehs announcement covered only the West Bank | Neutral | BETHLEHEM West Bank Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a 30day state of emergency on Thursday and Bethlehems Church of the Nativity was closed following the discovery of seven cases of coronavirus in the traditional birthplace of Jesus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-palestinians/palestinians-declare-coronavirus-emergency-as-church-of-the-nativity-closed-idUSKBN20S17R | 2020-03-06 |
| Palestinians have rejected the U.S. blueprint as leaving them with only Swiss wedges of territory for a state they seek to create in the West Bank and Gaza Strip | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought reelection on Monday under the weight of an imminent corruption trial with the countrys third ballot in less than a year predicted to end in another deadlock | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-election/mired-in-stalemate-israel-holds-another-election-on-netanyahus-future-idUSKBN20P00F | 2020-03-02 |
| An uneasy truce between Israel and Hamas has helped stave off the sort of largescale fighting that led to IsraelGaza wars in 2014 and 2008 | Positive | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | Negative | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| The latest fighting began around dawn on Sunday when Israeli troops killed an Islamic Jihad member who was trying to plant explosives near Israels border fence with the Gaza Strip | Negative | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| There was no sign that Gazas Islamist rulers Hamas had been drawn into the rocket firing | Negative | Gaza militants on Monday fired rockets toward Israel which responded with air strikes in the second day of an escalation that began to ebb after the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad announced a halt to its attacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/gaza-israel-hostilities-flare-through-second-day-with-rocket-attacks-air-strikes-idUSKCN20I0BT | 2020-02-25 |
| An Israeli military statement said its forces had struck Islamic Jihad terror targets south of in addition to of Islamic Jihad targets throughout the Gaza Strip | Negative | Israeli fighter jets launched air strikes on suspected Islamic Jihad positions in Syria the Israeli military said on Monday after the militant group and Israel exchanged rockets and air strikes around Gaza | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-jets-strike-islamic-jihad-targets-in-syria-and-gaza-israeli-military-idUSKCN20H0C1 | 2020-02-24 |
| Israel and the United States neither of them ICC members dispute the courts jurisdiction in the absence of a sovereign Palestinian state in the West Bank Gaza or East Jerusalem | Negative | HAGUE Israels prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-icc-palestinians-israel/israel-hopes-germany-other-icc-members-will-help-stave-off-palestinian-investigation-idUSKBN20A0MQ | 2020-02-17 |
| Many identify as Palestinians and regularly voice solidarity with those in Gaza and the West Bank | Positive | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| Like their Palestinian brethren in the West Bank and Gaza Arabs in Israel have criticized Trumps plan which suggested what it billed as a solution for the decadeslong conflict | Negative | BAQA ALGHARBIYYE Israel Thousands of Israeli Arabs many waving Palestinian flags demonstrated in this town in Israel at the weekend to voice their fear that U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East plan could see them stripped of their rights as Israeli citizens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-swap/arabs-in-israeli-border-towns-fear-trump-plan-will-transfer-them-to-west-bank-idUSKBN1ZX26N | 2020-02-04 |
| Israels military issued a statement saying that based on an assessment of the situation it was reinforcing divisions for the West Bank and Gaza with additional combat troops | Negative | JERUSALEM Israels hawkish defense minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third of the occupied West Bank acting on U.S. President Donald Trumps announcement of a Middle East peace plan that Palestinians branded apartheid | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/citing-trump-plan-israel-defense-chief-backs-extending-sovereignty-to-west-bank-settlements-idUSKBN1ZS1P9 | 2020-01-30 |
| The West Bank and Gaza 40 km apart would be connected by a tunnel | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| The plan floats the creation of an artificial off Gazas coast that would serve as a Palestinian port and airport | Positive | JERUSALEM U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a solution for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict but with strict conditions that Palestinians have rejected out of hand | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-factbox/trumps-mideast-plan-whats-in-it-idUSKBN1ZS2UX | 2020-01-30 |
| Hamas whose stronghold is in Gaza was scathing | Negative | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called U.S. President Donald Trumps Middle East peace plan the slap of the on Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians held protests in Gaza and the West Bank | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-reactions/slap-of-the-century-palestinians-reject-trump-mideast-plan-idUSKBN1ZR2BN | 2020-01-29 |
| The Islamist militant group Hamas whose stronghold is in Gaza was scathing | Negative | More than two years after he first proposed a plan to revive the longmoribund IsraeliPalestinian peace process U.S. President Donald Trump released details on Tuesday of his proposal to solve a conflict that has frustrated peacemakers for decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan-explainer/explainer-whats-in-trumps-middle-east-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZR1IX | 2020-01-29 |
| Palestinians fear the plan will dash their hopes for an independent state in the West Bank Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem areas Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will announce his longdelayed Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday and that he believes Palestinians will eventually go along with it despite their refusal to engage on the subject | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-israel-palestinians-plan/amid-palestinian-doubts-trump-to-share-mideast-peace-plan-with-israelis-idUSKBN1ZQ0B9 | 2020-01-28 |
| In Gaza now ruled by Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which has fought several wars with Israel Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said no U.S. plan could alter realities on the ground | Negative | JERUSALEM As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to host Israeli leaders in Washington to reveal details of his longdelayed Middle East peace plan Palestinians warned on Friday that no deal could work without them on board | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trumps-peace-plan-may-polarize-the-middle-east-it-seeks-to-calm-idUSKBN1ZN1N9 | 2020-01-25 |
| The Palestinians fear the Trump plan will dash their hopes for an independent state in the West Bank east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip territories Israel captured in 1967 | Negative | JERUSALEM More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the IsraeliPalestinian peace process it lies stalled half in and half out of the starting blocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa-explainer/explainer-what-we-know-about-trumps-mideast-peace-plan-idUSKBN1ZM308 | 2020-01-24 |
| They fear the plan will dash their hopes for an independent state in the West Bank east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release details of his longdelayed peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival Benny Gantz visit the White House next week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-usa/trump-to-unveil-long-stalled-middle-east-peace-plan-ahead-of-israeli-leaders-visit-idUSKBN1ZM2RV | 2020-01-24 |
| Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | Negative | Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israel-carries-out-gaza-air-strikes-after-palestinian-rocket-fire-idUSKBN1ZE1WP | 2020-01-16 |
| No casualties were reported on either side of the IsraelGaza border | Negative | Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israel-carries-out-gaza-air-strikes-after-palestinian-rocket-fire-idUSKBN1ZE1WP | 2020-01-16 |
| There was no immediate claim of responsibility from the Gaza Strip which Israel keeps under blockade citing security concerns over Hamas the dominant armed movement in the Palestinian territory | Negative | Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israel-carries-out-gaza-air-strikes-after-palestinian-rocket-fire-idUSKBN1ZE1WP | 2020-01-16 |
| A statement by the Israeli military did not accuse Hamas of launching the rockets but said that it holds the group responsible for all events transpiring in the Gaza | Negative | Four rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday the Israeli military said and it responded with air strikes against facilities belonging to the enclaves ruling Hamas militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israel-carries-out-gaza-air-strikes-after-palestinian-rocket-fire-idUSKBN1ZE1WP | 2020-01-16 |
