An Israeli firefighter attempts to extinguish a fire caused by an incendiary balloon on the Israeli side of the border between Israel and Gaza Strip, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

An Israeli police officer demonstrates a new laser defense system designed to intercept explosives-laden balloons launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel, on the Israeli Gaza border, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020. Hamas-linked activists have sent dozens of the balloons into Israel in recent weeks, scorching large areas of farmland in southern Israel. Israeli police say the new system has a 90% success rate when activated. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

A Palestinian women wears a face mask carries her shopping during a lockdown imposed following the discovery of coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. On Wednesday Gaza's Hamas rulers extended a full lockdown in the Palestinian enclave for three more days as coronavirus cases climbed after the detection this week of the first community transmissions of the virus in the densely populated, blockaded territory. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)