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More than 2,000 Palestinian Americans have traveled into or through Israel since it eased conditions for them at border crossings as part of a bid to achieve a visa waiver deal with the United States, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. Ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline to qualify its citizens for visa-free admission to the United States, Israel has reciprocally loosened access through its main airport and at the occupied West Bank's boundary for Palestinian Americans. The U.S. embassy has declined comment on the trial period, which comes amid unusually intense strains between U.S. and Israeli leadership over wider Palestinian policies and contested judicial changes in Israel.