Israel announces plan to reopen Gaza’s Rafah crossing on Sunday
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Isreal plans to reopen the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, after nearly two years of closure.
However, the crossing, that links Gaza with Egypt, will only be opened to allow a “limited movement of people,” COGAT, a defence ministry body overseeing civil affairs in the Palestinian territories, said in a statement on Friday.
The opening of the crossing – a key entry point for desperately-needed humanitarian supplies for Gaza’s 2 million or so displaced people lacking food, shelter and medicines – is stipulated under the second phase of the United States brokered ceasefire deal designed to bring to a halt the devastating war between Hamas and Israel, although no time frame is set.
The core part of the first phase of the plan was completed after the return of the remains of the last Israeli captive in Gaza earlier this week.
Hamas then released a statement calling for Israel to complete the implementation of all the provisions of the ceasefire agreement, “especially the opening of the Rafah Crossing in both directions without restrictions,”
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