Palestinian Authority employees wear face masks as they wait to receive their salaries from an ATM, outside a Palestine Bank, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Dair Al Balah in the central of Gaza Strip, on March 4, 2021. Thousands of public employees of the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip began, today, Thursday, receiving their full salaries, for the first time since punitive measures were imposed on them in April of 2017, which included reducing the salaries paid to them to varying rates. Photo by Ashraf Amra