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November 17th, 2015 
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nsnbc : Senior Palestinian Authority official Azzam al-Ahmad told the press on Monday, that the Palestinian Authority government in Ramallah had reached an agreement with Egypt that would result in the opening of the Rafah border crossing while bypassing territory controlled by Hamas.
Rafah border crossing (archive image from al-awdany.org)
The Egyptian administration of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi had earlier this year expressed that it would like to normalize the opening of the Rafah border crossing as soon as possible, provided that the Palestinian side of the border is controlled by the official Palestinian government instead of being controlled by any particular Palestinian faction.
Senior Palestinian diplomat and aide to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, Azzam al-Ahmad, told the press that an agreement had recently been reached in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Al-Ahmad said that the agreement aims at opening the Rafah border crossing to the maximum extend possible to allow students, laborers, medical patients as well as commercial goods through the border.
An implementation of the agreement would break years of Israel’s blockade against the coastal Palestinian enclave while it would take the wind out of the sails of elements within Hamas who have been involved in the insurgency in Egypt’s North Sinai province after the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood linked Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Hamas has reportedly received and reviewed the agreement with skepticism, raising questions about the viability of its implementation. Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said that Hamas had not been oficially informed about the agreement through the appropriate channels, indicating that Hamas was likely to oppose it. Al-Azzam, for his part, commented on the point, saying that Hamas would have to answer to the people of Gaza if it opposed the agreement and to explain to them why it opposed an agreement that could break years of siege on Gaza.
F/AK – nsnbc 17.11.2015
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2015/11/17/palestinian-authority-and-egypt-reach-deal-on-opening-rafah-border-crossing/
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