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Israel now controls roughly half of Gaza, the eastern side.
says Israeli troops are behind daily detonations of residential buildings.
Based on satellite imagery, the BBC says more than 1,500 buildings have been destroyed since a ceasefire more than a month ago.
NPR can't independently verify that number.
The UN says more than 280,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed since the war began.
It also says Palestinians' access to humanitarian aid, public infrastructure and agricultural land all remain restricted or barred altogether.
The Israeli military says it's dismantled underground infrastructure, tunnels used by militants, but did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment about residential buildings.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
Footage from the scene shows burned trucks, smashed windows, and a warehouse blackened and looted.
The Israeli military says the perpetrators were masked Israeli civilians who, after injuring Palestinian staff, turned on Israeli soldiers and attacked them, damaging their vehicles.
The United Nations says settler violence hit a record high last month.
During the Palestinian olive harvest, with an average of eight attacks per day, most go unpunished by Israel.
In this case, a senior Israeli military commander called on soldiers to, quote, not stand idly by.
The Palestinian Economy Ministry is urging other countries to place perpetrators on international terrorism lists.
Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.
This was Mohammed Ibrahim's 10th hearing in an Israeli military court.
His father, Zahar Ibrahim, says it adjourned without a plea bargain or trial date.
The Ibrahims are Palestinian-American.
They split their time between the Tampa area and the occupied West Bank, where Israeli soldiers took Mohammed from his bed last February.