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Palestinian Kindergarten teacher wearing a face mask and gloves, play with children after the decision to open schools across the Gaza Strip, in Gaza City, on June 2, 2020. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour/APA Images)

With the state of emergency lifted across the West Bank and Gaza, the coronavirus pandemic appears to be winding into a new phase, one of social distancing but inevitable crowds as shops and mosques reopen.

A Palestinian child wears a mask as he runs between alleys in Al-Shate' refugee camp, in the Gaza Strip on May 18, 2020. Photo by Mahmoud Al-Hindi/APA Images

After a lull in cases over the previous period this week saw a slight spike in cases of COVID-19, most alarmingly in Gaza where the coronavirus had been kept in check until now.